¢In this assignment,
you will select one region of the world with known environmental issues and
create a timeline of the events in this area, going back no more than 200
years. For example, you could choose to focus on the Gulf Coast in the United
States and its history of hurricanes, floods, and the recent oil spill; the
Love Canal disaster in New York; the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine; or
Canada’s tar-sands in Alberta. Each of these areas has a history of
environmental problems that have impacted populations, and their health,
drastically.
¢To help identify a
region with known environmental events for this assignment, consult your
textbook, the WHO Public Health and Environment Program’s Web site, and the
UNEP’s Web site. Please be sure to support your public health analysis of these
environmental issues with evidence-based research.
¢Using this timeline
of events, create a presentation analyzing the environmental issues in this
region, including the following topics/issues:
¢History—A brief
timeline: Describe the environmental history for the area(s)/region(s)
impacted, including the environmental disasters that have taken place and their
immediate- and long-term impacts on the population’s health in this region.
Wherever appropriate, include a description of the population(s) in the region,
along with demographics and population sizes. This should take approximately
4–5 slides.
¢The factors that
caused these disasters and public health outcomes in this area. Be sure to list
all known causative factors at play and whether they are caused by humans
and/or are natural. This should take approximately 2–3 slides.
¢An analysis of how
these events have impacted or will impact the health and/or disease risk of
this region of the world. Be sure to address other determinants of
health—social, economic, cultural, and other environmental factors—in your
analysis that influence or will influence the magnitude of environmental events
on health outcomes in this region. Examine whether you are focusing on a region
with primarily developed or developing countries and explain how this
influences current and future health outcomes. This should take approximately
4–5 slides.
¢A summary of past,
current, and proposed efforts that aim to help combat the effects of these
environmental issues/threats on health (local and/or global), including
emergency response planning and prevention efforts. This should take
approximately 3–4 slides.
¢Three recommendations
for strategies to protect populations in this region from poor health outcomes
due to these environmental issues. Be sure that your three recommendations are
supported with evidence-based research. These could include long-term policies,
emergency response plans, or public health programs that would protect public
health in the region. This should take approximately 3–4 slides.
¢References used for
the project in APA format. This should take approximately 2–3 slides.
¢Be sure to include
detailed speaker notes for each slide to elaborate on what you would say while
presenting your material.
¢Develop a 20–25-slide
presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of
sources. Use the following file naming convention:
LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.ppt.
