HCS 457 ENTIRE COURSE

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HCS 457 Week 1 Individual Assignment Article Review


· Resource: Article Review Grading Criteria on the student website.
· Review two to three news articles to determine a local community health care issue. Examples include swine flu, asthma, and teenage pregnancy.
· Write a 350- to 700-word paper answering the following questions:

o How long has it been a problem?
o How has it affected the community?
o How has the community responded?

· Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

HCS 457 Week 3 - Learning Team Assignment - PERI Model

Resource: PERI Model Grading Criteria on the student website.
Review the PERI model and process described in Ch. 2 of the text.
Complete each of the following steps using the public health issue or disease your team got approval for last week:

· Review at least two websites identified in the Website Review and Summary assignment.
· Create a 7- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes to summarize your findings pertaining to the issue or disease.

o Describe the issue or disease.
o Identify the demographics and effect of the issue or disease on the community.
o Identify the underlying nature and cause of the issue or disease.
o Determine if the effects cross from community to state or national levels.
o What possible solutions did you identify?
o How successful were the solutions?
o What additional suggestions for treatment or resolution did you find?
o Include how the model served as a guide to understand the cause.
Include at least four references in addition to the text.
Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.







HCS 457 Week 4 Individual Assignment Communicable Disease Paper


Communicable diseases rely on fluid exchange, contaminated substances, or close contact to travel from an infected carrier to a healthy individual.

· Resource: Communicable Disease Paper Grading Criteria on the student website.
· Identify a communicable disease to research.
· Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper summarizing your research. Include the following information:

o Describethe disease and discuss efforts to control it.
o Identify the environmental factors related to this disease.
o Explainthe influence of lifestyles, socioeconomic status, and disease management.

o Identifygaps and how you might link to other resources to meet needs that are not locally available.
o Include recommendations to expand the communities’ programs if there are gaps.

o Describe what the public health department is doing to reduce the threat of the disease.
o Include data findings, evidence-based intervention, and a plan to ensure quality health.

· Include at least three references.
· Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.





HCS 457 Week 5 Team Assignment Windshield Survey Presentation



· Resource: Windshield Presentation Grading Criteria on the student website.
· Complete your presentation of a significant community health issue from the Website Review and Summary assignment.
· Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes about the issue. Include the following:

o The issue your team selected: Include graphs of data that support the people linked by the issue and demonstrate the effect on the community.

§ Describe the demographics of the area the issue affects.
§ Explain the effect of the issue, such as volume and prevalence over time, and before and after the intervention.
§ Discuss the significance or effect on the community.
§ Discuss possible causes, and contributing behavioral and environmental factors.

o Incorporate the PERI model you created to support the epidemiological model and evidence-based care.
o Government role and level of effect: national, state, and local

§ Does this disease expand to a global setting?
§ Identify the government structure.
§ Discuss the function and role for this issue.
§ Identify and discuss the interaction or overlap between levels of government.
§ Describe the health objectives at each level.

o Intervention and treatment

§ Identify and discuss the primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions.
§ Discuss the effect or effectiveness of the intervention.
§ Discuss the opportunity for change and continued improvement.

o Identify the social and behavioral effect of this issue: Discuss the strategies for successful effects on these variables.
o Identify resources in the community and their support or effect on the issue and the interventions.
o Identify gaps in the community plan, actions, and resources, and recommend strategies to address the gaps.
o From your research, what changes do you anticipate over the next 5 years related to this issue in your community?

· Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.