Question description

Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment

In this module, you will pick one local or national newspaper and review the global, national, local, sports, life, health, and business sections, looking for public health-related issues. After conducting your review, you will participate in this discussion using the bullet points below as a guide.

Tasks:

In a minimum of 200 words, post your response to the following:

• Identify six public health issues in at least three sections.
• Discuss the impact of each identified issue on public health.
• Identify the level of public health prevention related to the issue.
• Discuss the impact on the community if public health intervention did not occur for the identified issue (e.g., premature deaths, intimate partner violence, unemployment, poor housing conditions, new manufacturing plant moving into the area, teen pregnancy, high school drop-outs, food recall, or heat or sports-related illnesses, etc.).

Submission Details:

• By the due date assigned, post your responses to this Discussion Area.
• Through the end of the module, read all of your classmates’ postings and respond to at least two classmates’ posts that differ from your opinion. Consider sharing your own experiences and interpretation of the research. Support your findings with examples and scholarly references. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Grading Criteria

Discussion Grading Table	Maximum Points
Quality of initial posting, including fulfillment of assignment	16
Quality of responses to classmates	12
Frequency of responses to classmates	4
Reference to supporting readings and other materials	4
Language and grammar	4
Total:	40

Question description

Your initial response to each Discussion Question should be a minimum of 200 words.

Discussion Question 1

Cultural competency is an important part of public health. In order to reach our target audience, or those who need health information, we must understand the population’s unique needs. This is especially true during a disease outbreak. After reviewing the Readings for Unit 8, answer the following questions:

1. Why is cultural competency important when addressing health problems within a specific population?
2. Why is it important to target specific populations with health information they relate to?
3. What are some ways to reach the target population using culturally and linguistically competent information?

You may use examples from the Unit 8 Readings. Be sure to include a list of credible references to support your response.

Discussion Question 2

This Discussion is a graded group activity. Please identify the group you are assigned to based on your last name. Each group will have a topic to discuss and will have a separate thread in which to participate. Please only work within your assigned board.

Consider the topic based on developing clinical business intelligence (CBI) assigned to your group. Then, working as a group, develop possible solutions. Each person in the group should contribute ideas, but each group should work toward a consensus for the top three ideas. One person in each group will post the top three ideas.

When possible, use a published research study to support your ideas; the Library is an excellent resource for finding examples.

Team B

(for last names beginning with G–M): TOPIC Effective sharing of information with the public