Population
Health Concern Case Study and Policy Action Addendum Paper (Case Study/Policy Paper): 30% of course grade
When
writing this paper please imagine that you are involved as a masters prepared
nurse in providing health related services in Paterson, NJ (direct care,
administration and/or education). In order to serve, you will want to better
understand the health needs/concerns of the population and to explore effective
means of improvement. For the purposes of this paper, please choose as your
focus one population health concern/issue relevant to Paterson, NJ. *If you
wish to focus on an area other than Paterson please speak to the instructor (prior approval is needed).
Continued: Population Health Concern Case Study and Policy Action
Addendum Paper (Case Study/Policy Paper)
The paper should include
(please organize the paper accordingly with headers):
A.
Introduction: Introduce the population heath issue/concern and provide a brief
overview of your rationale for focusing on this health concern (1-3 paragraphs).
You may choose to focus on a specific population group in Paterson, if not
specified the assumption will be that the discussion applies to the population
of Paterson as a whole. Discuss the risk and preventive factors that are
associated with this health concern and the consequences of this health concern
for public health. Support your discussion with evidence. The introduction may
summarize some information that you discuss in greater detail further along in
the paper.
B. Epidemiology: Provide and discuss relevant descriptive and analytical
epidemiological data. Analyze and discuss data
relationships in light of risk, causative or protective factors, comparisons over
time and comparisons to other populations.
C. Benchmarks and Strategies to Address this Health Concern:
Discuss relevant established benchmarks for progress in this area of health
concern (may be state, national and/or international benchmarks). Discuss recommended strategies to address
this health concern and the evidence supporting these recommendations. Please
discuss your opinion of the relevance and cultural implications of these
benchmarks and strategies to the population you are focusing on. Are there
other benchmarks and/or strategies that you would propose, if so please discuss
and provide a rationale.
D. Policy Action Addendum:
Of the strategies to address this health care concern discussed to this
point, please identify one or two strategies and discuss potential options for
policy advancement that would support the strategy. Please recall that the
policy advancement may be related to judicial, legislative, administrative or
regulatory policy, institutional policy or other non-governmental policy. You
might ask yourself: ‘what needs to
change to better be able to engage this strategy and address this health issue,
how might this relate to policy change and how would this change be made?’
This is an opportunity to be intellectually creative and your ideas here should
be informed by, but not limited to, the methods and examples covered thus far
in your course work. Several policy advancement options should be covered. (1-2
pages of the 6-9-page paper).
E. Provide reference list and correctly cite all references in
text.
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