health concern in your community. Your goal is to identify a health need within
your community that concerns you and that you feel should be brought to the
attention of someone specific
Specifically, for this assignment, you will:
1. Investigate
a community health problem and its social consequences
2. Identify
the magnitude of the problem, the consequences of the problem, what is being
done, what can still be done, how is it affecting your community. You will
report statistic from the literature. You will need to do an extensive
literature review to build your case.
3. Identify
relevant information to develop an argument regarding the need to address a
community health problem (how prevalent it is, why is it so bad, who is it
affecting, what can be done, who is doing it, social burden and consciousness’)
4. Develop a
paper that presents research identifying the magnitude of the health problem
5. Use Peer
reviewed articles to make your argument (pubMed, Medline, Google Scholar).
Internet sources or secondary sources do not count. Avoid any statements, such
as, “I think, or I feel.” This is a scientific paper and it needs to
be professional.
6. 10 sources needed.
7. 6 to 12 pages long
