For Professional Only
Significant Contributions to Public Health – Part II
This is a continuation of your final project which you started in Week 3. This last piece involves an analysis of how your individuals contribution from the past continues to contribute to todays public health system and how it might guide future work within the industry. As you recall in week 3 you researched an individual and their contribution to community and public health. To begin you need to review the feedback given to you from Week 3. Then make the necessary revisions to Part I of this project. Then you will be adding the second half to your project.
Follow this outline to help formulate your paper or presentation:
ACTION:Make sure you review all the feedback from your Week 3 (Part I) assignment and apply any necessary revisions. Your week 3 assignment should have included each of the following elements:
GRADED ELEMENT :Describe your selected persons experience
GRADED ELEMENT :Analyze the climate of the time period in terms of political socioeconomic environmental and technological context in which this person worked.
GRADED ELEMENT :Examine the personal beliefs of your person that prompted this work.
GRADED ELEMENT :Examine how this individual overcame any adversities to succeed in his/her task.
GRADED ELEMENT:Describe the final outcome of this individuals contribution to community and/or public health.
GRADED ELEMENT :Explain what his/her contribution did for overall community and/or public health at the time.
GRADED ELEMENT :Explain why this contribution was so important at that particular point in history.
ACTION:Think about the individuals contribution to community/public health
GRADED ELEMENT :Analyze the impact of your individuals contribution on todays public health system.
oHELP: You are asking what happened as a result of this contribution at the national and community level? For example some elements you could address include:
did it change attitudes
did it change protocols and policies
did behavior change result
did it add/eliminate laws
GRADED ELEMENT :Analyze how this contribution is still relevant today
oHELP:Was this contribution only applicable at the time it occurred or is it still applied today? Why or why not? Explain your response
GRADED ELEMENT :Examine how this contribution could support or be expanded for future community and public health benefits
oHELP:Using solid critical thinking look at the historical value of the contribution and examine how it could be used for the future (is it applicable to another health issue can it lead to more policy change could it promote advocacy work or public health laws etc.)
You have a choice of which format you wish to present your findings:Format 1: Written Paper
Must be at least 6 pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
oTitle of paper
oStudents name
oCourse name and number
oInstructors name
oDate submitted
Must use at least eight scholarly sources (one of those may be the course text).
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.