Category: public health

Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the student will be expected to be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
1. Critically analyse the theoretical concepts and ideologies which inform public health policy and practice.

2. Critique current public health issues in the light of historical perspectives and discourses.

3. Synthesise evidence from public health policy interventions and suggest alternative policy approaches especially in relation to tackling inequalities in health.

Intellectual, practical, affective and transferable skills
4. Deconstruct the social, political, economic and environmental contexts of Public Health particularly in relation to social inequalities.

5. Analyse the contemporary developments in public health policy and the implications for inter-agency collaborative partnerships across all sectors at national, local and international levels.

Intellectual, practical, affective and transferable skills
4. Deconstruct the social, political, economic and environmental contexts of Public Health particularly in relation to social inequalities.

5. Analyse the contemporary developments in public health policy and the implications for inter-agency collaborative partnerships across all sectors at national, local and international levels.

These learning outcomes can be understood in the following ways:
Learning outcomes 1&2 are about being able to demonstrate an understanding of how public health issues fit into the wider context of theory, history and policy. You should look at how public health practice has changed, and consider ways that we evaluate success in a campaign or intervention.
Learning outcome 3 asks you to combine information from different sources. You might choose to look at health policies in different countries, especially if you can see changes in health outcomes (for example, do you think that the ban on smoking in public places helped people to stop smoking?).
To meet learning outcome 4, you should be able to discuss factors that may contribute to inequalities in health. We suggest that you think about how society, politics, the economy and the environment may have an effect on health. You may have to define the terms that you use to meet this learning outcome – for example, environment can mean different things to different people.

Priority Health Issues Within the Community
Identifying priority health issues involves striking a delicate balance between perceptions the community itself has of its needs and the needs that are identified through the community health assessment. When identifying assets, community members are able to gain control of their environment, their behaviors, and their perceptions that they can use to change their lifestyles. This brings about a sense of dedication to long-lasting health changes that the community will effectively maintain.
For this Discussion, refer to the media Identifying Assets from this week’s resources. Then review the case study “Opening the Doors to Change” from this week’s resources, in which the author identifies policy priorities and the areas in need of attention (starting on page 4). Finally, consider the following scenario: You have received funding from an agency to implement improvement strategies for three areas in need of attention in the case study.
Post by Day 3 an explanation of which three areas in need of attention you would choose and why.
Remember to begin interacting with your colleagues in the Discussion no later than Day 5 and continue engaging through Day 7 by supporting or critiquing the rationale of your colleague’s selections.
Support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for Walden Students to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned

In this assignment you will plan a community nutrition promotion programme which aims to make healthy food more available and accessible in an Early Childhood Education (ECE) setting.
a. Overview the evidence for the effectiveness of nutrition programmes in ECE or primary schools.
b. Identify community using national statistics which may benefit from a nutrition programme in an ECE.
c. Describe overall aim and SMART objectives.
d. Describe strategies and actions which may influence the food available within the ECE and wider community for whanau/family.
e. Provide a health promotion model to underpin your programme.
f. Develop a guide to evaluate your programme.

To undertake the planning you can build your own logic model. Logic models are intended to be a guide, not a prescription.Consider the following headings:
Rationale
Why is this particular programme needed? Consider:
• particular problems or issues significant in the community or region that you have selected
• statistics specific to the region
• the potential for health gain for each priority area
• how the programme might reduce inequalities.
Population group
How might the affected population (caregivers and families) be involved in the planning process?
Programme description
Whatwill the programme do?
Goal
Describe the aim over a specific timeframe.
Objectives
These should be SMART specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-framed.
Strategies
The range of activities and resources to be used eg, policies, programmes, hui, meetings, submissions.
Setting or population group; settings include early childhood schools, kohanga reo and workplaces, while population groups include pre-school children, Maori women, communities and neighbourhoods. There may be a number of activities for each part of the programme.
Making a difference
Identify what you hope to influence from the programme. What are the inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes.
Linkages
Programmes are based on collaboration and cooperation with other sectors and providers-describe.
Evaluation
A process to evaluate all aspects of the programme is needed.

Describe and explain the variation in PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP and ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE at the FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL levels. Compare and contrast the roles and responsibilities of the chief executive or key leader for EACH level. Use the literature to justify your position and/or to provide examples.
CREATE AN INTRODUCTION WITH A STRONG THESIS STATEMENT. DO NOT WRITE A CONCLUSION.
References need to be a peer-reviewed academic journal or books.

Thesis: The evolvement of military medicine over the last 10 years has drastically reduced combat deaths and increased the survivability of non-fatal injuries, preserving the fighting strength of the force.
Paper must support the thesis as stated above. Include level I headings

Theory to Health Education Practice
Transitioning from health education theory to practice may present certain challenges for health educators. For example, how does a health educator determine what health education theory is best suited for an individual or group?
Consider the scenario:
Harris started smoking at the age of 14 and currently smokes 1 pack of cigarettes a day. Having just turned 21, Pablo is experiencing difficulty breathing and is finding that 1 pack of cigarettes is no longer sufficient. Pablo has been considering letting smoking go for the past three months. In fact, Harris tried quitting smoking with friends in the past and even tried alternative sources of nicotine, including gum and a patch. Harris also stopped smoking altogether for an entire week last month but found that it only made the problem worse Pablo’ desire to keep smoking and in fact to increase the amount of cigarettes smoked has been noticed by his family and friends. Frustrated,Pablo is concerned that nothing is working and really wants to change but does not know how.
For this Discussion, you will be assigned to small work groups. Reflect on the Health Belief Model (HBM) or the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model and consider how these may apply to the scenario presented.
Group A: Health Belief Model
Post by Day 3 an explanation of how you would apply the HBM to the scenario described. Explain how this theoretical model may assist health educators with program planning and implementation. Be specific and provide examples.
Remember to begin interaction with your colleagues in the Discussion no later than Day 5 and continue engaging through Day 7 and describe how you would apply the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model to this scenario and explain why. Explain how the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model is different for the scenario when compared to the HBM.
Group B: Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model
Post by Day 3 an explanation of how you would apply the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model to the scenario described. Explain how this theoretical model may assist health educators with program planning and implementation. Be specific and provide examples.
Remember to begin interaction with your colleagues in the Discussion no later than Day 5 and continue engaging through Day 7 and describe how you would apply the HBM to this scenario and explain why. Explain how the HBM is different for the scenario when compared to the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model.

Project Component 2
The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is useful for health educators because it incorporates an individual’s intent or intention to modify a health behavior. In this way, health educators are engaged with a client who is amenable toward changing a given behavior and who is in the first stages of making a true change. Thus, in the Theory of Planned Behavior, the individual’s intention to perform a given behavior is related to their attitude of performing that behavior. The behavior is influenced by their beliefs about what significant others and peers think the individual should do, as well as the individual’s perception of the ease or difficulty of performing the behavior,
For this Assignment, review the Point Mar Case Study and download  Worksheet Template provided in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider how the constructs may apply to the health issue and your health education program from the Point Mar Case Study for the Final Project.
Note: In grading this Assignment, your Instructor uses the Final Project Components Rubric, located in the Course Information area. Review the Rubric prior to completing your Assignment.
The Assignment (2 pages)
Complete the worksheet based on the health issue that you selected and the constructs of the TPB. Note: Do not select planning models.
Summarize your experience of completing this activity and explain the value of theoretical applications for health education practice.

this assignment, apply the information you learned about T Couple Therapy by writing a case study.” In your paper, describe how you would use T Therapy in your work with this couple. Specifically, describe the beginning stage of therapy (i.e., How would you start therapy?); develop a specific treatment plan using at least three interventions from the T model; evaluate the effectiveness of this model based on the treatment outcomes that you might expect for this specific case and on the personal fit of the model for your own style and beliefs about therapy; and then discuss how this approach fits with your ideas pertaining to your philosophy of change in therapy.

This case study should include specific information from the assigned readings (i.e., concepts from the IMAGO model) as well as detailed descriptions of the process and outcome of therapy (i.e., how the model would look if it were used with this specific client system). The content of this assignment will be evaluated using the following criteria:

Description of the beginning phase of therapy (2 points)
Discussion of the treatment plan (2 points)
Evaluation of the model – case outcomes and personal fit (2 points)
Concepts from the chapter are well integrated with case information (2 points)
Analysis of the IMAGO model in line with your personal philosophy of change (3 points)
Total Points Possible for Content 11 points

 

purpose of this essay is to demonstrate your engagement with the ideas and material explored in the unit, so your task is to draw in as much as possible to formulate your work. It is absolutely essential to base your essay on the material provided in your unit reader. You will probably also need to do additional research for this essay. Make sure you use sociological sources.

-While the essay questions may require you to present examples to support your argument, you are being assessed mainly on your ability to think sociologically – so be sure to present a sociological argument supported by examples (not lots of examples connected by a few lines of sociology)!
-As with all sociology assessment, your essay must be fully referenced using Harvard Style with a bibliography provided at the end of the set showing all texts used.

For these two topics you need to decide on a single topic issue. At the moment – that would mean choosing either smoking and Saudi youth or maternal mortality in Saudi. Yesterday – I suggested that you might choose either an integrative literature review or a concept analysis. Reflecting on that – I would now argue that the integrative review is not really a viable option. I think that the best and most realistic way to successfully navigate both topics is adopting the concept analysis approach. The intention of a concept analysis is to clearly define the context of a clinical issue that is often mis-understood, confused – or there appears to be multiple meanings to it. I’m not sure if you could do that with smoking and youth or maternal mortality. If those terms are well defined and understood by most practitioners – then you might have to consider a different topic altogether. I am going to attach quite a few articles that relate to concept analysis (including one of my own) to give you an idea of what it involves. It is not an overly-complex research approach but, at the same time, it requires a lot of reading to fully understand its premise and criticisms. I’m just attaching some material in this email – there is plenty of other stuff on concept analysis out there in the nursing literature.

Part of the important rigour process of a concept analysis is a detailed and well reported literature search strategy – so I am attaching two further articles about good literature review process – and another article of mine demonstrating how you can order and ‘tabulate’ your key articles (which is essentially your key data). This is like the integrative review that I spoke of – except you are going to incorporate it into your practice project topic assignment.

For paper (4,500 words) – this will become an ‘overview’ of what the literature says about your chosen topic, detail of concept analysis and what it does – and justification of why you are using it and why you have chosen the particular concept analysis framework (there are several different ones to choose from and they all do different things) – and then a critical discussion.

For paper (9,000 words) – this will be detail of your step-by-step concept analysis process. Look to some of the examples I have attached to see what that will look like – depending on which framework you adopt.

I hope that this helps – and ask as many questions as you need to – to help you understand the task at hand. If you decide that you have to choose another topic issue to investigate – run it past me first. This process is not an easy one – but it does help us avoid ethics and having to collect data from human participants – which we would not have time to do given the current circumstances.

choose one subject which you think is an area of clinical practice that is either not well understood – or people mis-interpret its context.

It will be two separate assignments – but they are related to each other. The 4500 words assignment is a justification and critique of concept analysis – the second 9000 words assignment is the concept analysis itself. There will be some cross-over between the two i.e. similar literature review – but we can address that nearer the time.)
please now I need a new outline for each part one will be 450 words for the 4500 words and the other one will be 1000 words outline for the 9000 words it should be ready the outlines within 2 days however you can do the whole assignment within a week or more if u required an extension .please see the attached files .please all the sources must be published within the last 5 yaers from 2010-2015. cheers