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Assignment:

Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment.

1. Identify a health problem or need for health promotion for a particular stage in the life span of a population from a specific culture in your area.

2. Choose one of the Leading Health Indicator (LHI) priorities from Healthy People.

3. Research a topic related to health and wellness associated with one of the Healthy People topic areas.

4. You will develop an educational health promotion project addressing the population/culture in your area.

5. Include the following sections on the selected topic.

Introduction and Conclusion-

• Introduction establishes the purpose of the paper and describes why topic is important to health promotion in the target population in your area.
• Introduction stimulates the reader's interest.
• Conclusion includes the main ideas from the body of the paper.
• Conclusion includes the major support points from the body of the paper.

Relate Topic to Target Population-

• Describes the topic and target cultural population.
• Includes statistics to support significance of the topic.
• Explains how the project relates to the selected Healthy People topic area.
• Applies health promotion concepts.

Summary of Articles-

• A minimum of three (3) scholarly articles, from the last 5 years, are used as sources.
• Articles meet criteria of being from scholarly journals and include health promotion and wellness content.
• At least one article is related to the chosen cultural group.
• Summaries all key points and findings from the articles.
• Includes statistics to support significance of the topic.
• Discusses how information from the articles is used in the Health Promotion Project, including specific examples.

Health Promotion Discussion -

• Describes approaches to educate the target population about the topic.
• The approaches are appropriate for the cultural target population.
• Identifies specific ways to promote lifestyle changes within the target population.
• Applies health promotion strategies.