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Assignment

In this paper (introduction), I want you to start thinking about a public health research problem you are curious about.

Once you have chosen a public health problem, you will want to start researching this topic to find peer-reviewed articles within the field of public health to gain more insight about it. Google Scholar is a great resource to use in order to find open source peer reviewed materials as well as the National University Library.

Paper (Introduction) Instructions

Project Topic: Comparative Analysis of Access to Healthcare in Rural Communities within the United States.

Write a 2 to 4 pages introduction to your research problem. Include one paragraph for each of the following:

A. Statement of the research problem: What healthcare problem/issue are you addressing in your research proposal?

B. Review studies that have addressed the problem: This is NOT a literature review...instead, you are using existing studies to justify the importance of YOUR study and creating distinctions between past studies and your proposed study - you want to synthesize the literature versus reporting on individual studies.

C. Deficiencies in past literature: How your planned study will remedy and address these deficiencies can often be found in the "suggestions for future research" or "limitations" section of journal articles.

D. Audiences who will potentially find the study of interest

E. Write your purpose statement: Qualitative this was used in the capstone paper attached, you can use the same but write it differently or quantitative: sets objectives, intent, or the major idea of a proposal or study - builds on the need (the problem).

F. A reference page: with 8 peer reviewed scholarly articles closely related to your research problem (these will be from your discussion board post this week. I will attach the discussion post journal articles used).

a. These must be recent (preferably in past 5 years, and not over 10 years old)
b. These must be peer-reviewed journal articles of primary research
c. Sources outside of peer-reviewed journals (government websites, etc.) are encouraged but DO NOT count toward your five sources.