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Addressing Health Disparities through Social Justice

Overview: You will write a paper on either a social movement or a social policy that has impacted both health disparities and overall population health in the United States.

Assignment

For this assignment, you will produce a paper that focuses on one social movement or social policy that, in the past, was advocated as a method to address health disparities.

You may choose from any of the following:

Social Policies Social Movements

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program • The Breast Cancer Movement

• Housing Choice Voucher Program • The AIDS Movement

• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families • The Labor Movement

• Supplemental Security Income (SSI) • The Disability Rights Movement

• Head Start • The Environmental Justice Movement

To gather information for your paper, you may only use:

• Government websites (i.e., the initial website ends with .gov)

• Published books (including individual book chapters)

• Peer-reviewed journal articles

• You may not use any other resources (e.g., websites, news stories, or videos)