For your final project,
you will be researching an individual and their contribution to community and
public health. Because of the size of this project, you will be doing the first
part of this project in Week 3 then adding the final portion in Week 5. You
have the option of writing a paper or putting together a presentation. Details
are below the outline. Overall, you will be researching an historical figure in
the public health world, their contribution to public health, and how their
work helped shape the public health system. Furthermore, you will be analyzing
how their contribution from the past continues to contribute to today’s public
health system and how it might guide future work within the industry.
Follow this outline to help
formulate your paper or presentation:
ACTION: Select one of the historical figures and
their associated public health topic
· Margaret Higgins Sanger/Reproductive health
· Rachel Carson/Environmental health
· Franklin D. Roosevelt/Health care administration
· John Snow/Communicable and infectious disease
· Luther T. Terry/Smoking
· W. E. B. DuBois/Social determinants of health
· Larry Kramer/Health activism
· An individual of your own choice:YOU MUST OBTAIN INSTRUCTOR
APPROVAL IN ADVANCE
ACTION: Research the
individual’s background
· GRADED ELEMENT: Describe your selected person’s biographical
background (i.e. experience).
· HELP: This can include resume elements such as
birthdate, location, education, and brief statement of their contribution to
public health. (Reminder: biographical information can be easily plagiarized.
Please do not copy from your biographical websites. Paraphrase and/or quote and
cite everything according to APA.)
ACTION: Research the barriers
and issue of the time
· GRADED ELEMENT: Analyze the climate of the time period in
terms of political, socioeconomic, environmental and technological context in
which this person worked
· HELP: Think about whether this person was up
against resistance or was their work welcomed.[For example, if you were
writing on Abraham Lincoln and the abolition of slavery, you would note that
slavery was prevalent and accepted at the time and the change was welcomed by
some and rejected by others]
· GRADED ELEMENT: Examine the personal beliefs of your person
that prompted this work.
· HELP: You are basically addressing the question:
“Why did this person get involved with the issue at the time?” [In continuing
the Lincoln example above, you would note that black people were considered
property, not people; yet Lincoln believed everyone had equal rights regardless
of skin color].
ACTION: Think about how this
person overcame the barriers and issues
· GRADED ELEMENT: Examine how this individual overcame and/or
confronted any adversities to succeed in his/her task
· HELP: Questions to consider: What did the person
specifically do? Did they have any allies? How did their actions succeed/fail?
ACTION: Think about the
importance of the contribution to community/public health at the time
· GRADED ELEMENT: Describe the final outcome of this
individual’s contribution to community and/or public health
· HELP: Think about this question: What occurred as a
result of this person’s action?
· GRADED ELEMENT: Explain what his/her contribution did for
overall community and/or public health at the time
· HELP: Think about this question: What was the
purpose for the community and/or nation?[In the Lincoln example, the
explanation would involve a national recognition of human rights of all people,
regardless of skin color]
· GRADED ELEMENT: Explain why this contribution was so important at
that particular point in history
· HELP: Think about this question: What made this
important for our nation?[In the Lincoln example, you would answer the
question: Why was it so important that Lincoln freed the slaves?]
You have a choice of which
format you wish to present your findings:
Format 1: Written Paper
· Must be at least 4 pages in length (not including
title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in
the Ashford Writing Center.
· Must include a separate title page with the following:
· Title of paper
· Students name
· Course name and number
· Instructor’s name
· Date submitted
· Must use at least four scholarly sources (one of
those may be the course text).
· Must document all sources in APA style as outlined
in the Ashford Writing Center.
· Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
