Assume that your community has a newly-discovered radon health problem

Unit Assignments

 Unit I Case Study

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Assume that your community has a newly-discovered radon health problem.  From which state and local government and non-government agencies would you seek advice?  Why would they be chosen?  How does this fit their mission?  What expertise would they have in this area?  Your response should be no less than 300 words using APA style and all references must be cited using APA format.

Unit II Scholarly Activity

Studies have found common features among high-performing health departments that manage diabetes.  These departments may include receiving external funding for programming, having a self-management education program that is recognized by the American Diabetes Association, and having partnership opportunities. Using your local health department as the basis of study, discuss the diabetes programming and services it utilizes. In your opinion, should more be done to battle diabetes in your area or do you feel that the services provided are sufficient? Explain why you feel this way. Your response should be no less than 300 words using APA style and all references must be cited using APA format.

Unit III Scholarly Activity

Using a smoking cessation program in your area, or one that you locate online, write one program goal and one objective for each of the levels presented in Table 5.3 on page 125 in your textbook. Your response should be no less than 300 words using APA style and all references must be cited using APA format.

Unit IV Case Study

Interview a staff member at three different nursing homes in your local area. According to them, what are the most pressing nursing home issues in your area? Discuss how you, as a community health care leader, would approach these issues. Your response should be no less than 300 words using APA style and all references must be cited using APA format.

Unit V Case Study

Do people in your local area have access to community mental health services? If so, what types of programs are available? If not, determine the reasons why these types of programs do not exist. How could you, as a community health care leader, help make such programs more readily available in your local area? Your response should be no less than 300 words using APA style and all references must be cited using APA format.

Course Project

The BHA 3501 Course Project gives you the opportunity to study an important community health problem or challenge and analyze it in-depth, presenting your findings in an APA written paper format. Any topic introduced in this course may be selected for your project. It is a good idea to conduct an internet research on potential topics that you are considering for your Course Project before selecting one. You will want to determine that plenty of information is available online for incorporation into your project.

In preparing the Course Project, you will critically analyze issues related to your community health topic, and you will consider both our current healthcare environment and future directions in community health.

Guidelines

The length of the Course Project should be seven to ten pages, double-spaced, and in strict APA format. The Course Project is a significant portion of your grade, so you should consider it a very important activity.

You will need at least five outside sources for your Course Project beyond the course textbook. Web resources and professional journal articles will be key sources in researching your topic. In-text citations and APA referencing are required. You will list all of your sources on a Reference Page at the end of the project.

The BHA 3501 Course Project will include at least the following sections; you may want to include others if you deem them appropriate:

1. Introduction of your Topic
2. Challenges and Problems Associated with your Topic
3. Review of the Community Health Literature
4. Critical Analysis of Challenges/Problems
5. Recommended Solutions
6. Implementation of Solutions
7. Justification of Solutions
8. Conclusion
9. References

The professor is happy to review drafts of your Final Course Project so that you can have feedback and make any necessary improvements before the work is considered final for submission. If you are submitting a draft review, please do so during Unit VI of the course, so that professor has time to review and comment. Your professor is here to help you succeed!

Some possible Course Project topics for your consideration include:

• History of Public Health Practices
• Government Roles in Community Health
• Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases
• Epidemiology of Non-communicable Diseases
• Community Organizing for Health
• Coordinated Programs for School Health
• Maternal Community Health Priorities
• Infant Community Health Priorities
• Child Community Health Priorities
• Adolescent/Young Adult Community Health Priorities
• Adult Community Health Priorities
• Elder Community Health Priorities
• Community Health and Minority Groups
• Treatment of Mental Illness
• Drug Abuse and Community Health
• Impacts of Pollution on Community Health
• Intentional Injuries and Community Health
• Unintentional Injuries and Community Health
• Domestic Violence and Community Health
• Occupational Injuries and Disease in Community Health

If you do not find a Course Project topic of particular interest on this list, you are permitted to propose your own topic for approval. A strong recommendation is to begin the Course Project research and writing by Unit II of the course!

BHA 3501 Community Health