Public Health

Milestone Four Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: This assignment constitutes the fourth step of your final project. The final project is a presentation exploring public health goals and a public health response to a health problem.

Prompt: You will examine and summarize the public health responses to your selected issue/topic by identifying who is involved and what actions they are taking (the “who” and the “how”).

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

Public Health Response: In this section, you will inspect the public health landscape to identify who is involved in responding to your public health issue and what actions they are taking.

A. Describe the public health organizations involved in the response to the public health issue at the national and local levels. Use examples that show which entities are working on the issue and what they are doing. For example, what federal and local agencies and/or not-for-profit entities are involved, and what are their roles in the response?

B. Explain the specific public health subdisciplines involved in understanding and responding to the issue, including what their roles are. Examples of public health subdisciplines include biostatistics, epidemiology, maternal and child health, and disaster-response planning.

C. Explain the public health services involved in the response to the issue. What types of services, programs, or campaigns have been offered by organizations in response to the problem? Be sure to provide examples.

Based on your understanding of the health goals and interventions, identify gaps in the response and draw connections to the broader field of public health.

D. Explain the overall effectiveness of the public health response to your issue, based on any gaps

between its goals and the current information and strategies. In other words, given what you

understand about the distribution of the public health issue and the strategies that have been

undertaken to address it, what are the obstacles to this public health response meeting its

goals?

E. Discuss the unique perspective that public health theoretical frameworks provide in addressing

this issue. In other words, how is the public health approach different from the way other

medical models might address this issue, and what advantages do public health frameworks

have in terms of promoting positive health outcomes with regard to the issue?

F. Reflect on the connections between the public health response to this issue and broader ethical

questions of social justice, poverty, and systematic disadvantage. Specifically, how does the

response help to improve conditions for people in their communities? Keep in mind ethical

theories and principles studied in this course.

Use the Final Project Template to complete Milestone Four of the project. Include the notes for each completed slide. Your instructor will review your work and provide feedback and possibly suggestions.

 

Guidelines for Submission

· Describes the public health organizations involved in the response to the public health issue at national and local levels, using appropriate examples.

· Explains specific public health subdisciplines involved in the response to the issue, using appropriate examples.

· Explains the public health services involved in the response to the issue, using appropriate examples.

· Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization.