JOHN SNOW/COMMUNICABLE & INFECTIOUS DISEASE

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For your final project, you will be researching an individual and their contribution to community and public health. Because of the size of this project, you will be doing the first part of this project in Week 3 then adding the final portion in Week 5. You have the option of writing a paper or putting together a presentation. Details are below the outline. Overall, you will be researching an historical figure in the public health world, their contribution to public health, and how their work helped shape the public health system. Furthermore, you will be analyzing how their contribution from the past continues to contribute to today’s public health system and how it might guide future work within the industry.

Follow this outline to help formulate your paper or presentation:

ACTION: Select one of the historical figures and their associated public health topic: THE HISTORICAL FIGURE I HAVE CHOSEN IS: JOHN SNOW/COMMUNICABLE & INFECTIOUS DISEASE ( ALSO FORMAT 1 WHICH IS THE WRITTEN PAPER)

  • Margaret Higgins Sanger/Reproductive health
  • Rachel Carson/Environmental health
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt/Health care administration
  • John Snow/Communicable and infectious disease
  • Luther T. Terry/Smoking
  • W. E. B. DuBois/Social determinants of health
  • Larry Kramer/Health activism
  • An individual of your own choice: YOU MUST OBTAIN INSTRUCTOR APPROVAL IN ADVANCE

ACTION: Research the individual’s background

  • GRADED ELEMENT: Describe your selected person’s biographical background (i.e. experience).
    • HELP: This can include resume elements such as birthdate, location, education, and brief statement of their contribution to public health. (Reminder: biographical information can be easily plagiarized. Please do not copy from your biographical websites. Paraphrase and/or quote and cite everything according to APA.)

ACTION: Research the barriers and issue of the time

  • GRADED ELEMENT: Analyze the climate of the time period in terms of political, socioeconomic, environmental and technological context in which this person worked
    • HELP: Think about whether this person was up against resistance or was their work welcomed. [For example, if you were writing on Abraham Lincoln and the abolition of slavery, you would note that slavery was prevalent and accepted at the time and the change was welcomed by some and rejected by others]
  • GRADED ELEMENT: Examine the personal beliefs of your person that prompted this work.
    • HELP: You are basically addressing the question: “Why did this person get involved with the issue at the time?” [In continuing the Lincoln example above, you would note that black people were considered property, not people; yet Lincoln believed everyone had equal rights regardless of skin color].

ACTION: Think about how this person overcame the barriers and issues

  • GRADED ELEMENT: Examine how this individual overcame and/or confronted any adversities to succeed in his/her task
    • HELP: Questions to consider: What did the person specifically do? Did they have any allies? How did their actions succeed/fail?

ACTION: Think about the importance of the contribution to community/public health at the time

  • GRADED ELEMENT: Describe the final outcome of this individual’s contribution to community and/or public health
    • HELP: Think about this question: What occurred as a result of this person’s action?
  • GRADED ELEMENT: Explain what his/her contribution did for overall community and/or public health at the time
    • HELP: Think about this question: What was the purpose for the community and/or nation? [In the Lincoln example, the explanation would involve a national recognition of human rights of all people, regardless of skin color]
  • GRADED ELEMENT: Explain why this contribution was so important at that particular point in history
    • HELP: Think about this question: What made this important for our nation? [In the Lincoln example, you would answer the question: Why was it so important that Lincoln freed the slaves?]

You have a choice of which format you wish to present your findings:
Format 1: Written Paper

  • Must be at least 4 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:
    • Title of paper
    • Students name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least four 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.

OR

Format 2: Presentation (w/audio or w/speaker’s notes)

  • Must be at least 12 minutes in length (not including title and reference slides) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate title slide with the following:
    • Title of presentation
    • Students name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least four 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.

Describe a significanat health issue in your community or state

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What are YOU going to do about it?

In the past weeks, you have examined and explored the challenges and issues facing delivery of public health services in a given community and across the nation. The goal of public health is to prevent disease and promote health.

To that end, take a moment to review your own communities health needs through a purview of current events, your own setting by informally interviewing public health professionals, or reviewing national databases like the ones listed below:

America’s Health Rankings (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.americashealthrankings.org/
The Commonwealth Fund. (2015). Overall Ranking, 2014 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Retrieved from http://datacenter.commonwealthfund.org/#ind=1/sc=1

For this discussion, you are asked to do the following:

  1. Describe a significanat health issue in your community or state.
  2. Compare its significance to the national priorities of Healthy People 2020 goals (is it a national priority or just one found in your state/community).
  3. Explain what type of effort it will take to fully address it (leadership skills, financing, organizational buy-in, stakeholders, perceptions, barriers)
  4. Evaluate the efforts YOU can take to address this issue. (As a public health practitioner, what is YOUR role such as: Will you develop, lead or be part of a public health program to address the issue? Will you work on financing, organizational buy-in, stakeholders…what are you going to do to address this concern?)

Public Health and Health Promotion

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100-150 words, intext citations, apa format, etc.

Discussion response guidelines:

When responding to the posts of your peers, please address the following:

  • What reactions do you have to the ideas they presented? Include examples from the course readings or your own experience to support your perspective, and raise questions to continue the dialogue.
  • How did their post influence your thinking?
  • How can you use the information presented in your peer’s post?

Response #1

Public Health and Health Promotion

The CDC defines public health “is the science of protecting and improving the health of families and communities through promotion of healthy lifestyles, research for disease and injury prevention and detection and control of infectious diseases” (2016).

The World Health Organization defines health promotion “is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions” (2016).

Similarities and differences

The similarities of public health and health promotion both are pushing for individuals to take better care of their health and by doing so getting the community involved. The differences is health promotion helps reduce excess mortality, address the leading risk factors and underlying determinants of health, helps strengthen sustainable health systems, and places health at the center of the broad development agenda (WHO, 2016). While, public health is concerned with protecting the health of entire populations, for instance these populations can be as small as a local neighborhood, or as big as an entire country or region of the world (CDC, 2016).

Health Promotion Activity

Keeping Kids Active is a health promotion activity in my community in which different leaders in the community came up with to keep children activity while out for summer vacation. This program offers youth to come to the local YMCA and play basketball. This program was to energize and mobilize children in the community to become active and take pride in the way they treat their body. The program over the year have been a major success and over the past year it has help over hundreds of youth in different areas of their life. Obesity is now better control and weight of the youth has gone down as well.

Healthy People 2020

Healthy People 2020 develop about three decades ago to improve the health of all Americans. “Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to: Encourage collaborations across communities and sectors, empower individuals toward making informed health decisions, and measure the impact of prevention activities” (2016). Over all, the program is design to help all Americans get healthy and stay healthy.

Legislation/ Interest Group

The health reform has had the most impact on the way health care is provide. “With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), millions of people have greater protection against losing or being denied health insurance coverage, and better access to primary and preventive services” (ANA, 2016). By this law being passed many of people now don’t have an excuse of being healthy and taking better care of themselves. “Most people are now required to have health insurance, or pay a penalty that starts at 1{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} of income (or $95, whichever is greater) for the 2014 tax year, and go up to 2.5{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} of income (or $695, whichever is greater) by 2016” (Moffit, Haislmaier, Morris, 2013). The American Nurses Association has been advocating for health care reforms that would guarantee access to high-quality health care for all.

Wellness Program

Healthy eating had the greatest impact on the people of the U.S. in the last three years. “These findings provide insights into the potential effectiveness of alternative media interventions to counteract the unhealthy influence of television on diet, including nutrition education, parental communication and media literacy education to teach children to defend against unwanted influence, and reduced exposure to unhealthy messages” (CDC, 2011). The reason why this had an impact on me is because eating healthy was not the way that I used to do in which, I had in my mind that eating healthy did not taste good. Must say that since this program I have had better blood pressure reading and also have now maintain a healthy weight. School age children and also the teachers and staff was involved in this program. The reason why they were involved is because the obesity levels are high among the children. I think that by getting the community involved and the parents will help slow down the rate for obesity children around the community.

Resource(s):

CDC Foundation. (2016). What is Public Health? Retrieved from http://www.cdcfoundation.org/content/what-public-health

World Health Organization. (2016). Health Promotion. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/healthpromotion/en/

Healthy People 2020. (2016). About Healthy People.Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/About-Healthy-People

American Nurses Association. (2016). Health Care Reform. Retrieved from http://nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/Policy-Advocacy/HealthSystemReform

Moffit, R., Haislmaier, E., Morris, J. (2013). Congress in the Obamacare Trap: No Easy Escape. Retrieved from http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/08/congress-in-the-obamacare-trap-no-easy-escape

CDC. (2011).School Health Guidelines to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr6005a1.htm

Systems thinking in public health looks at how different disciplines work together to create the public health system

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Instructions

Systems thinking in public health looks at how different disciplines work together to create the public health system. When we examine the public health system as a whole, we can see several different parts; health education, health communication, the public health workforce, information technology, and even non-profit organizations concerned with population health help make the public health system work.

For the Unit 3 Discussion, you chose a public health problem and an organization that is part of the public health system (local, state, federal or global health organization, non-governmental organization, or other organization) that is addressing the health problem. Using the information, you drafted for the Unit 3 Discussion and the peer feedback you received, write a minimum 500-word expository essay that addresses the following:

  • Briefly describe the health problem and organization that you chose, and what they are doing to improve population health.
  • How does this organization fit into the overall public health system?
  • Using systems thinking, determine what other organizations inside or outside the discipline of public health would be important for your chosen organization to build relationships with to meet their goal of improving population health. Then, describe the linkages between the organizations that make them a part of the system that is needed to address the health problem.
  • You may include a diagram of the ‘system’ that shows how the organizations are linked.

Requirements

  • The paper should be at least 500 words in length.
  • There should be a minimum of three credible references used, including the source for your chosen organization, which should be presented in APA format.
  • I have attached the assignment rubric to help complete assignment.