Explain how retail positioning strategy can flow from both cost-side and demand-side factors.

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Assignment 1 Grading CriteriaMaximum Points
Identified and explained applicable laws which might affect Afterschool Depot’s channel policies.60
Explained if strategic alliances outperform ordinary distribution channels, evidence of their success, how they can strengthen sustainable competitive advantage and gave a well supported recommendation for Afterschool Depot.60
Explained how retail positioning strategy can flow from both cost-side and demand-side factors.56
Analyzed the typical conflicts that may develop between Afterschool Depot, wholesalers and retailers and described conflict resolution methods which are feasible and effective.60
Written Components:Organization (16)Usage and mechanics (16)Style (8)APA elements (24)64
Total:300

What Is Healthy People?

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What Is Healthy People?

Healthy People 2020 provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.. For 3 decades, 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.
  • Measure the impact of prevention activities

It can be used by many different people, states, communities, professional organizations, and others to help them develop programs to improve health.

Healthy People 2020 continues in this tradition with the launch on December 2, 2010 of its ambitious, yet achievable, 10-year agenda for improving the Nation’s health. Healthy People 2020 is the result of a multiyear process that reflects input from a diverse group of individuals and organizations.

What Are the Leading Health Indicators?

Healthy People 2020 provides a comprehensive set of 10-year, national goals and objectives for improving the health of all Americans. Healthy People 2020 contains 42 topic areas with nearly 600 objectives (with others still evolving), which encompass 1,200 measures. A smaller set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, called Leading Health Indicators, has been selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them

. The Leading Health Indicators are composed of 26 indicators organized under 12 topics. The Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators are:

  1. Access to Health Services                                  7.  Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
  1. Clinical Preventive Services                                  8.  Oral Health
  1. Environmental Quality                                           9.  Reproductive and Sexual Health
  1. Injury and Violence                                                10.  Social Determinants
  1. Maternal, Infant, and Child Health                       11. Substance Abuse
  1. Mental Health                                             .      12. Tobacco

http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/default.aspx

This Application Assignment asks you to consider the kinds of data you would use, and how you would obtain the data, for a community health assessment.

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This Application Assignment asks you to consider the kinds of data you would use, and how you would obtain the data, for a community health assessment.

Read through the case exercise on Community Health Assessment, linked below, and complete all the questions. All the information you will need to complete this assessment exercise is provided in the Appendix at the end of the document. Save this Word document to your computer before you begin to fill out the form.

Community Health Assessment Exercise

Note: Assessment is a very involved process, and you could easily spend many hours exploring this case exercise alone. However, for the purposes of this assignment, you should limit yourself to spending no more than two hours to complete this Application.

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Week 4 Application: Community Health Assessment for Pitt County, North Carolina[*]
Community health assessment is key to understanding the health problems and priorities of a population. This Application Assignment outlines a process by which you can complete a health assessment of a community using indicator-based methods. You will construct a set of health indicators from a variety of domains, evaluate problems, and report on the health priorities for a community.

Sections A–C ask questions about assessment in general. Section D involves assessment of a particular county in North Carolina, information on which is provided in that section and in the Appendix.

Instructions: Save this document to your computer and complete all questions in Sections A–D below. Submit by the end of Week 4 following the submission instructions in the Week 4 Application section.

Section A: Community Health Assessment

The goal of public health is to improve the health of a population. Public health interventions such as safe water sources, immunization programs, and improved motor vehicle safety regulations account for the majority of years of life expectancy gained in the United States over the last 100 years.

A community health assessment involves obtaining and interpreting information to determine the health status of a specific community. Once community health needs are identified, public health interventions can be developed and their effectiveness evaluated using a similar approach.  Information necessary for performing a community health assessment, for example data on mortality rates or behavioral risk factors such as smoking, is available from various sources.

Questions:

  1. How do you define community?
  2. What stakeholders (groups/organizations) would you want to consult with for a community assessment?
  3. What types and sources of data would you use for a community assessment?

What are the chemical and physical properties and the lytic/latent cycles of animal and plant viruses

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Directions:

Choose 7 of the following 10 questions listed below. Your answer for each

question should be a minimum of 150 words (half page). Please number your answers and print

the number of the question you are answering above your answers, e.g., “Question 3 answer.”

We suggest you write or print out the essay questions for handy reference as you develop your

answers.

  1. What were the historical scientific breakthroughs that led to our current understanding

of viruses, viroids, and prions?

  1. How do viruses, viroids, prions, and bacteria differ in terms of their biological identity

and method of infection?

  1. What are the chemical and physical properties and the lytic/latent cycles of animal and

plant viruses?

  1. How can viruses lead to cancer? Be sure to use specific examples (e.g. virus name and

the cancer it causes) to illustrate your points.

  1. You are growing Bacillus subtilis in nine 16,000-liter fermenters to produce enzymes for

industrial use. The Bacillus cultures had been growing for 2 days when the cells in one of

the fermenters lysed. Explain what happened in this fermenter.

  1. What are the defining characteristics of protozoa in general, and, specifically, how can

you differentiate the following phyla of protozoa: Archaezoa, Microspora, Amoebozoa,

Apicomplexa, Ciliophora, and Euglenozoa? Be sure to use specific examples (e.g. specific

species of protozoan) to illustrate your points.

  1. What are the defining characteristics and methods of reproduction of organisms

belonging to the Kingdom Fungi in general, and how can you differentiate among the

following three fungal phyla, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota, in terms of

their method of reproduction, method of obtaining nutrients, and importance to

humans?

  1. What are the distinguishing characteristics of lichens with regard to their nutritional

needs, and what are the roles of the fungus and the alga that make up lichens?

  1. Describe the physiological characteristics that differentiate the eleven major phyla

present in the Domain Bacteria and discuss the importance to humans or the

environment of representative member genera from each of these phyla.

  1. What is the Bergey’s Manual, and how is it used as a tool in the classification or

identification of bacteria?