The purpose of this assignment is to find a public health topic that has captured

The purpose of this assignment is to find a public health topic that has captured your concern.
You will describe several key elements in this paper as follows: 1) the public health burden of disease—overall prevalence (the proportion of the population that is affected), and which groups are most affected, etc; 2) what factors are suspected to be driving the rates, such as social, biological and/or environmental determinants, or sources of health disparities; 3) public health measures in place to help curb rates, and 4) what more you think needs to be done.
1)6pts: Public health burden of disease: For this part of your paper, you will clearly describe the public health issue that has captured your concern, describe the burden of disease in terms of person, place, and time. In effect, you will describe who it is affecting most, where it is occurring most, and if there is a time component to it, such as seasonality. Cite your sources.
2)6pts: Factors driving the rates: Describe what the epidemiology has to say about the factors driving the rates of your public health issue. Cite source(s).
3)6pts: Public health measures: Describe what public health measures have been taken to alleviate the burden of disease. Don’t limit yourself to the US, but look for public health programs around the world that are addressing your issue of concern. Cite your source(s).
4)2pts: What more needs to be done: This can be a speculative section on your part, a step you think public health can take to improve on the current programs that have to do with dealing with your public health concern. If you think everything that can be done is being done, then explain why you think it is.
Paper guidelines
oRecommended format and length (1.5 written pages, single spaced, not including images)
oReference guidelines:
a.Number references consecutively in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. Reference numbers in the text are full-sized Arabic numerals in parentheses within the sentence. For 3 or more consecutive references cited all at once, use, for example, (1-4). Format other references as (4, 5, 12), with spaces between the reference numbers.
b.Important: All statements of scientific fact should be referenced.

Reference examples
i.Standard journal article
Nakajima S, Saijo Y, Kato S, et al. Effects of prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins on mental and motor development in Japanese children at 6 months of age.Environ Health Perspect. 2006;114(5):773–778.
ii.Article in an online-only journal that accounts for the lack of a page range
Laupland KB, Davies HD, Low DE, et al. Invasive group A streptococcal disease in children and association with varicella-roster virus infection. Ontario Group A Streptococcal Study Group. Pediatrics. 2000;105(5):E60.
iii.Web page/Website
Bureau of the Census, US Department of Commerce. Glossary of basic geographic and related terms—Census 2000. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/glossary.html#glossary. Published April 8, 2001. Updated January 5, 2004. Accessed February 24, 2005.
US Environmental Protection Agency. Final rule. “National primary drinking water regulations; arsenic and clarifications to compliance and new source contaminants monitoring.” Part VIII. Federal Register 66, no. 14 (January 22, 2001):6876–7066. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/ars/arsenid_finalrule.htm.
Health Care Financing Administration. 1996 statistics at a glance. Baltimore, MD: Health Care Financing Administration. http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/stathili.htm. Published May 20, 1996. Accessed March 1, 1998.
iv.Abstract
Joffe M, Santanna J, Feldman H. Partially marginal structural models for causal inference [abstract]. Am J Epidemiol. 2001;153(suppl):S261.
v.Letter
Deddens JA, Petersen MR. Re: “Estimating the relative risk in cohort studies and clinical trials of common outcomes” [letter]. Am J Epidemiol. 2004;159(2):213–214.
vi.Book
Rothman KJ, Greenland S, eds. Modern Epidemiology. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Raven, Publishers; 1998.

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