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Healthypeople.gov is a website that provides a multitide of health related information ranging from providing access to health care, genomics, respiratory diseases and substance abuse.  It is a very user friendly website that is very helpful to the public as it provides easy to understand information about hundreds of topics and their advise, interventions and resources are based on evidence based practice.  Every decade, the healthy people initiative develops a new set of objectives to improve the health of all Americans.  Healthy People 2020 includes over 1,200 objectives to monitor and improve the health of all Americans over the decade. The objectives are organized into 42 topic areas, each representing an important public health area. To determine the success of Healthy People, it is important to track and measure progress for the objectives over the decade (Healthy People, 2018).  The three types main types of Healthy People objectives are measurable objectives, developmental objectives and informational objectives.  These objectives ensure that there is a national baseline value and that the objectives are measurable and targets have been established.  

Planning is now underway for Healthy People 2030.  The planning is being formed based on public comment period held from June 27 to September 29, 2017, where members of the public were invited to share their comments on the draft framework.  These goals could potentially have a major impact on the health of the nation.  This website is a fantastic resource for the public and can help give them basic information and point them in the right direction in regards to healthcare interventions and health education.  

This is the first time I have used this website and it is very informational and user friendly.  I can incorporate this resource into my daily practice by educating my patients on this information and invite them to view the website to further educate themselves on their condition.  Also, there are many topics that I can print for patients upon discharge in regards to their medical conditions.    

 Identify a new trend that you have seen in healthcare, based on your personal experiences. What does the literature say about this trend? Will this trend change the way that healthcare works? If so, how, what will be the impact? Do you see this trend as long-lasting or is it a fad? Support your position. 

Prepare a power point presentation (no more than 30 minutes, no less than 15 slides) for the parents/guardians of a day care/school age children on Influenza and ways to prevent it. 

General Requirements

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

One of the pivotal goals of consumer health literacy efforts is to design educational materials that attract as well as educate users. In this Assignment, you design a health information document on a topic that is of interest to you.

To prepare:

• Select a health issue of interest to you.
• Identify the audience or population that you seek to educate about this issue.
• Search the Internet to find credible sites containing information about your selected topic.
• Review the two health literacy websites listed in this week’s Learning Resources. Focus on strategies for presenting information.

To complete:

• Design an educational handout on the health issue you selected.
  • Include a cover page.
  • Include an introduction that provides:
    • An explanation of your issue and why you selected it
    • A description of the audience you are addressing
  • In the handout itself:
    • Develop your handout in such a way that it attracts the attention of the intended audience.
    • Include a description of the health issue and additional content that will enhance your message (i.e., key terms and definitions, graphics, illustrations, etc.).
    • Recommend four or five sites that provide clear, valuable, and reliable information on the topic.

Note: Remember to keep the information in your health handout and its design at the appropriate level for the audience you are seeking to inform. Submit your Assignment as a Word document.

Creating an Interest Inventory

In Unit Two, which begins next week, you will write an argumentative research paper; basically, this means that you will have to use your own reasoning and evidence from sources to develop an argument.  All of the work you have done in Unit One should have prepared you for this next paper.  You will follow the same pattern of conversation with sources, but you’ll have to include several sources in that conversation.

This time around, though, you will choose your own topic!  And that’s what the interest inventory is for.  Let’s get started.

In a document, create several headings for categories of topics: CONTROVERSIES, HISTORY, SPORTS, TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, TRENDS, FASHION, CAREERS, POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, HOBBIES/GAMES, ETC..

Under each heading (and you don’t have to use all of the headings, but try for at least eight), list some topics in that area that interest you.  Keep in mind that the research paper must make an argument, so your topic should be something that can be debated.  For instance, you might want to write about nursing as a career, but within that topic you would need to find something arguable, such as whether or not an extra year should be added to all nursing qualification courses to improve overall health care.

Give yourself 20 minutes to sit with these headings and brainstorm lists of topics.  I’d love to see you generate five ideas for eight categories!  That’s 80 potential topics (see, English teachers CAN do math)!

Once you have finished your list, take some time to review it; then, highlight the three topics that interest you most.

Finally, after careful consideration, choose the ONE topic you are most interested in.  Once you have that topic, you should pose a question about it that you’d like to pursue in your research paper.  That question is called a research question, and it should start with WHY or SHOULD.  For instance, maybe your favorite topic is “prayer in school.” A valid research question would be, “SHOULD public schools allow prayer in the classroom?” This would lead to an argumentative paper because you would have to support your answer to that question.  Avoid “what” questions; they lead to reports instead of arguments.  “How” questions are tricky:  sometimes, they lead to arguments, but often they lead to reports.

Type your chosen topic and research question at the bottom of the inventory, and turn it in as Assignment #3.

Here is an example of what I’m asking you to do:interest_inventory.png

 

I have updated my policy about research topics to include the following list of topics that I will not allow you to write about. Here is the list of topics that you many not choose to write about:

Corporal Punishment

Abortion

School Uniforms

Church Membership and/or Attendance

Standardized Testing

Legalization of Marijuana / Medical Marijuana

Legalization of Prostitution

Conspiracy Theories (Illuminati, 9/11, etc.)

Driverless Cars

Prayer in Schools

Copyright Laws

Cloning

Hygiene

Mandatory Preschool

iPhones

Minimum Wage

Teen Pregnancy

Children and Social Media

Death Penalty