what are the most significant public health achievements in your opinion and explain why?

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first one
After reading chapter 1, what are the most significant public health achievements in your opinion and explain why? How do these achievements impact current health promotion efforts? Where do you hope to make an impact within the field of Public Health? Has any experience in your life contributed to your interest in this field

2nd one
Healthy People 2020 has a variety of risk reduction objectives based on content areas. If given a choice, what content area would you want to be employed in? Provide a rationale for this choice.

3rd one
Looking Ahead
IN-BASKET ASSIGNMENT
TO: Agency Health Education and Health Promotion Personnel
FROM: The Director
RE: Looking Ahead
We are doing long-range planning for the agency. Please submit a two-page report describing the historical achievements in prevention efforts facilitated by local, federal and professional organizations. In your report, identify the health issues of the 19th and 20th centuries and the social factors that influenced public health communication in addressing these health issues. Predict what you think will be the major health issues for the next decade. Which of these can be most impacted by health education and health promotion?
The weekly Assignments are meant to replicate actual communications between supervisor and employee in a public health organization. These weekly emails are requests from your “Boss” and should be treated as such. In other words, there are no strict formatting or length requirements. However, you will be graded on your professionalism as well as your content. Your instructor will be “grading” you as a supervisor, so, do your best!

the differences among the types of epidemiological study designs is important for translating the results to public health practice

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Epidemiological Study Designs
Understanding the differences among the types of epidemiological study designs is important for translating the results to public health practice. For this Discussion, you will identify and design epidemiological research studies. To prepare, review the Learning Resources about epidemiologic study designs. Then, go to the Walden Library or another scholarly library and find an epidemiological research study that was published in the last 3 months and uses one of the study designs we are learning about in this module.
– Briefly summarize the study in your own words, identify the study design it uses, and discuss what features it has that identify it as that type of study design. Do not just copy the abstract or parts of the article. Then, redesign the same study using a different study design than the authors did. This does not mean finding another article on the topic. Instead, pretend you are the epidemiologist and design your own study on the topic, using the information we’ve been learning in class about study designs, exposures, outcomes, and measures of association. You are the researcher! For the study you are designing, be sure to include information on who the participants would be and how you would measure the exposure and outcome variables. Discuss why your study design is stronger or more limited than the original study design, and how you arrived at this conclusion. Finally, pose a question about study designs to your peers that is based on your post.

Identify one epidemiologic measure of a public health issue related to this topic (prevalence, incidence rate, mortality rate, etc.)

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For each topic listed below, please:
A. Identify one epidemiologic measure of a public health issue related to this topic (prevalence, incidence rate, mortality rate, etc.)
B. Identify a public health intervention that has targeted a public health issue related to this topic. Briefly explain the intervention (one or two sentences).
C. Identify any data on the effectiveness of the intervention. If it is qualitative data (e.g., participants’ feedback on the program), describe the general themes in a sentence or two. If it is quantitative data, describe one or two important findings in a sentence or two.
D. For at least one topic, your source should be a peer-reviewed journal article.  For one topic, find an example of a t-test/ANOVA, Chi-Square test, linear regression, and/or logistic regression in a peer-reviewed journal article. Note the example and its interpretation. Do you agree with the interpretation that the author(s) made for this statistical test?
Topics:
1. Stress and Health
2. Tobacco Use
3. Alcohol Consumption
4. Substance Abuse
5. Overweight and obesity
6. Mental Health

Please be sure to answer A-C for all six topics listed above.

Describe the risk factors associated with the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and your independent research

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Prompt: To begin, review the final project research study, “Salmonella in the Caribbean.” Then, address the following critical elements in your short paper:

II. Health Issue: In this section of your final project, you will analyze the health issue in focus in the research study.  A. Describe the risk factors associated with the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and your independent research.  B. Describe the mode of transmission of the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and your independent research.  C. Determine the incidence and prevalence of the health issue using the data from the research study to perform the appropriate calculations. Tip: Use the data in Table 1 of the final project research study to calculate the incidence of the Total of Serotypes. Also, use the incidence to help you determine the prevalence of the disease.  D. Determine the mortality rate of the health issue using the data from the research study to perform the appropriate calculations.  E. Interpret the odds ratio to determine the strength of association between the potential sources of exposure and the disease. Tip: Use the data in Table 2 of the final project research study to calculate the odds ratio. One to two pages