Identify six public health issues in at least three sections

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.

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