Understanding conceptually a community is critical to understanding this course. After reading the appropriate articles and websites listed on the Background page you should have a good understanding of what is a community and some of the differences between community health and public health.

Assignment

In responding to the questions below, I want you to immerse yourself into this course and try to think “out of the box.” Research points or questions you may not understand running key words through Google or another search engine. 

Please briefly answer the following questions:

1. Which factor do you believe most affects the health of the community? Generally,      these factors are classified as physical factors, social and cultural factors, community organization, and individual behavior. Please justify your response.
2. Define community, community health, and public health. Discuss the domains of personal and community health within the context of the community.
3. Discuss and explain community health practices and what are their relationship to promoting a healthy community.
4. Explain health disparity and its causes? Identify the problems related to health disparity.
5. Discuss and explain a particular Social Determinant of Health that you consider to be the most important that can be improved by changing or modifying public policy as described by Richard Wilkinson and Michael Marmot in the WHO      (2008) “Closing the gap in a generation” article. (below)

Length: 4-5 pages APA format, 4-5 peer-reviewed, scholarly references, MUST use at least 3 of the sources below.

Required reading/sources:

George, A. S., Mehra, V., Scott, K., & Sriram, V. (2015). Community participation in health systems research: a systematic review assessing the state of research, the nature of interventions involved and the features of engagement with communities. PLoS One, 10(10), e0141091.

Han, H. R., Kim, K., Murphy, J., Cudjoe, J., Wilson, P., Sharps, P., & Farley, J. E. (2018). Community health worker interventions to promote psychosocial outcomes among people living with HIV-A systematic review. PloS one, 13(4), e0194928.

Howard-Grabman, L., Miltenburg, A. S., Marston, C., & Portela, A. (2017). Factors affecting effective community participation in maternal and newborn health programme planning, implementation and quality of care interventions. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 17(1), 268.

Lee, C., Mellor, T., Dilworth-Anderson, P., Young, T., Brayne, C., & Lafortune, L. (2018). Opportunities and challenges in public and community engagement: The connected for cognitive health in later life (CHILL) project. Research involvement and engagement, 4, 42. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-018-0127-x

Levine, B. R. (2007). Toward a broader notion of community. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 50(1), 124. Retrieved from ProQuest.

Pega, F., Valentine, N. B., Rasanathan, K., Hosseinpoor, A. R., Torgersen, T. P., Ramanathan, V., Posayanonda, T., Robbel, N., Kalboussi, Y., Rehkopf, D.H., & Dora, C. (2017). The need to monitor actions on the social determinants of health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 95(11), 784.

Smith, J., Griffiths, K., Judd, J., Crawford, G., D’Antoine, H., Fisher, M., Bainbridge, R., & Harris, P. (2018). Ten years on from the world health organization commission of social determinants of health: Progress or procrastination? Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 29(1), 3-7.

World Health Organization. (2020). Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health. https://www.who.int/phe/en/

World Health Organization. (2008). Closing the gap in a generation. Retrieved from http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241563703_eng.pdf

 

I am currently taking an introductory university level literature course, yet I am a science chick hence literature is really not my thing. 

Inserted below is the essay questions, do let me know if you are familiar with any of them. T 

Please also kindly provide me with a quote for the questions you are familiar with! 

Write an essay (about 500 words) in response to the articles by Jennifer Hochschild and Cory Booker article.  Write an essay in response to your thoughts on these articles.

1. In the first paragraph, briefly summarize both articles.
2. In the second paragraph, offer your ‘response’ to both authors’ arguments.
   • Do you agree with the Hochschild and Booker critiques of the American Dream? Why or why not?
   • Do you believe that the American Dream is part of our country’s political culture? In what ways do you see it influencing politics and public policy?
3. Support your argument using this week’s readings from the text book and your general knowledge of American politics and outside sources (if necessary).

Write a 500 word Article Response paper to Hochschild & Booker articles and submit.

Assignment
To complete the following assignment, go to this week’s Assignment link in the left navigation. 

Research Project – Week Five

 Before you complete your Week Five assignment, please read your instructor’s comments about your Week Four assignment, as well as this week’s lecture. Be sure to include any suggested changes in your project going forward. 

In a seven- to eight-page paper (not including the title and references pages),

1. Include a revised version of your introduction, research question, background research, hypothesis, research design, sampling plan, secondary data plan (if applicable), measurement scales (if applicable), observation plans (if applicable), survey plans (if applicable). These revisions must be based on the feedback from your instructor about these sections in Week Four.
2. Describe your plans for analyzing your data (e.g., content analysis, statistical analysis, etc.) and your plans for how you will present your results.
3. Include an APA-formatted references list.

Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

While it is not a required portion of your Week Five assignment submission, you should be collecting data this week if you haven’t started already. If you wait until Week Six to collect data, you will not have time to analyze it and write it up.