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HA 560 Week 8 Assignment


Unit 8 Assignment
Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
● Create an evaluation for a health promotion program.
● Discuss the role of formative research in health assessment.
● Discuss the benefits of media advocacy in health promotion.
● Discuss key issues with respect to health promotion, planning, assessment, and evaluation in a
global setting.
Course outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
HA560-2: Create assessment and evaluation activities.
Instructions:
This Assignment will include your findings from Units 4 & 6.
Your Assignment should include:
1. A title page with the title of your project, your name, name of this course, and Kaplan
University. Also a line with “date submitted”
2. Titles for each section (example: U.S. Census data on county in the state of ).
3. Include questions 1-5 from Assignment 4.
4. The health assessment you designed in Assignment 6.
5. Add the information you have discovered to this point in other projects and compile the
information about one health concern of relevance in your community (example: youth violence).
6. Using the health concern of your choice (the same one throughout this project) describe
how you will gather data for your health assessment (interview, focus groups, or whatever
methods you feel are appropriate).
7. Using the US Census information on your community, complete the health assessment
information. You may need to fill in certain information that you may not have on hand (such as
that you might gather through interviews or focus groups).
8. After you have completed the health assessment section, evaluate your information.
(Consult Chapter 13 in your book and look up a reliable example of a health promotion
evaluation on the Internet.) Use the link below for a guidepost for your evaluation. A good
informational website to help with evaluation is;
http://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/evaluation/index.html
9. In Doc Sharing and below you will find worksheets to help you think about who your
health evaluation will affect. This was taken from http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/programplanner/Step1.pdf Complete and add this to your assignment. This portion should include a plan
of action.
Kaplan University School of Health Sciences
HA560 Unit 8 Assignment
10. A reference page with your academic sources of information. You should use your
textbook as one resource, and include at least 4 other academic sources.
How exactly you compile the material is up to you, but remember to give details and to submit material
that is organized in thought, has a professional look, in a logical order, and is thorough. Check over your
work before submitting to assure clarity, order, and accuracy. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation will
also be graded. As long as you include the areas above, you may order the information as you wish as
long as it flows and is rational. Each component of the assignment should be organized in thought, have
a professional look, in a logical order, and be thorough.
Format your paper consistent with APA 6th guidelines.
Submitting your work:
Submit your Assignment to the appropriate Dropbox. For instructions on submitting your work, view the
Dropbox Guide located under Academic Tools at the top of your unit page.
Please be sure to download the file “Writing Center Resources” from Doc Sharing to assist you with
meeting APA expectations for written Assignments.
To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has
evaluated it. Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted work.
Kaplan University School of Health Sciences
HA560 Unit 8 Assignment
Unit 8 Assignment Grading Rubric = 130 points
Assignment Requirements Points possible Points earned
by student
Include questions 1-5 from Assignment 4, and include
health assessment from Assignment 6. Content should be
revised based on instructor feedback.
15
Compile the information about one health concern of
relevance in your community.
15
Use the health concern of your choice to describe how you
will gather data for your health assessment (interview,
focus groups, or whatever methods you feel are
appropriate).
25
Use the US Census information on your community to
complete the health assessment information. Include
information from interviews, focus groups, or any other
outside sources.
25
Evaluate your information. Include a plan of action. 40
Include at least 5 academic sources (one must be from the
textbook).
10
Total (Sum of points earned) 130
The Proposal is written in the most current version of
APA format with no grammatical, spelling, copyright,
plagiarism or proofreading errors.
Points deducted for spelling, grammar, and/or
APA errors.
Adjusted total points earned
Instructor Feedback*:
*Instructor may also leave feedback comments within Assignment submission.