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Assignment -

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

• Critique the value of scientific papers on environmental health for informing development of potential interventions that address environmental health hazards.
• Analyze environmental health hazards for quantifying their effects on population health.
• Recommend intervention strategies for mitigating public health challenges presented by environmental hazards.
• Recommend appropriate measures for monitoring success of environmental health interventions.
• Assess the extent to which public health theories predict environmental health trends for informing the development of proactive solutions to environmental health problems.

Prompt -

Your analysis and recommendations paper should answer the following questions: How has the specific environmental hazard you have chosen to explore impacted the public health? What interventions have been tried and what would you recommend to eliminate this hazard?

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Introduction: Choose an environmental health topic, with your instructor's approval, to use as the basis for your analysis and recommendations paper.

A. Briefly introduce your chosen topic. Be sure to explain why it is considered an environmental hazard or threat to environmental health, and provide evidence to support your response.

B. Cite current literature on this environmental hazard by summarizing the articles that you selected to research your topic.

C. Assess the scientific value of each of the sources you cited. In other words, how credible do you feel each of the sources you have selected is for your research on this topic? Be sure to justify your reasoning.

D. What are the key points you drew from each of these sources, and from which section(s) of the article or paper did you cull them?

II. Research-Based Analysis

A. What are the public health implications associated with your chosen topic? Are specific populations at risk with regard to this problem? Be sure to substantiate your claims.

B. What is the origin of the problem? In other words, is it natural, chemical, man-made, etc.? Be sure to provide evidence and examples to support your response.

C. Identify the primary effects on humans associated with your selected topic. These might include physical, mental, socioeconomic, psychosocial, or other effects. Be sure to provide specific examples to support your response.

D. Describe historical, current, or future trends associated with your chosen topic.

E. What public health theories do you feel were used or could be used to predict the trends you identified? For example, how effective were or are they? Be sure to substantiate your claims.

F. How might predicting environmental health trends help to inform the development of proactive solutions to your chosen topic?

G. How might monitoring the success of environmental health interventions help to inform the development of future interventions with regard to your chosen topic?

H. Provide a brief overview of a local, state, or federal program, strategy, or initiative that is already in place to attempt to address your selected topic.

III. Recommendations: Provide recommendations for interventional strategies that either address youre chosen environment health topic or improve upon existing interventions, as well as recommendations for monitoring the success of the proposed strategies.

A. By what mechanism and how effectively does the local, state, or federal program, strategy, or initiative that you identified address the public health implications of your chosen topic? Be sure to substantiate your claims.

B. What measures are in place for determining and monitoring the success of this program, strategy, or initiative? How might the administering agency better track the success of the program, strategy, or initiative? If no measures currently exist, what recommendations would you make and why?

C. What specific recommendations would you make for improving the local, state, or federal program, strategy, or initiative in terms of minimizing the public health risks presented by the problem? Be sure to justify your recommendations.

D. What intervention strategy (or strategies) might you recommend for minimizing the public health challenges presented by the problem? Be sure to justify your recommendation.

E. How would you measure and monitor the success of your recommended intervention strategy (or strategies)? Provide evidence to support your response.

Final Submission: Environmental Health Analysis and Recommendations Paper

In Module Nine, you will submit your final project. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission will be graded using the Final Project Rubric.

Note - Please add key points. For your key points, you could say something to the effect of "In Wang et al. researchers concluded that increases in ozone were associated with increases in all-cause mortality. Additional analysis concluded that increases in person-years exposure were associated with increases in the risk of death.