Describe the broad public health issue including its significance to
the overall health of the entire U.s.

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Formal Writing Assignment:
This assignment is about, a Health Issues (HI) Paper. This assignment will demonstrate your ability to synthesize and apply the course content to a public health issue. The HI paper will be developed and completed as an individual assignment
select a health issue in a specific aggregate/population. Some examples could be: pregnancy among teens; heart disease among women; HIV among African/American population; tuberculosis among Hispanic population, etc…(chapters 16-20, 26, 27 may help with selection). Once this has been completed, contact your course facilitator to obtain approval for this topic before proceeding.
The formal paper should be between 4-6 pages; excluding the cover page, any attachments, and reference page. The paper will be worth 150 points and represents

Introduction
1. Describe the broad public health issue including its significance to
the overall health of the entire U.s.population and the economic 15pts
impact at the population level (include U.S population level data). . _ ‘——-‘-

Body

2. Then describe the impact of the public health issue at a specific population/aggregate level you have selected (such as selected aggregate level data for teenage pregnancy). (15 pts)
3. Compare and discuss data trends (report as rate or percent) for this health issue and aggregate by county, state, and national level,if available (may not find all three levels depending on aggregate selected).about this public health issue and aggregate.If having problems with this contact your faculty facilitator for advice.(10 pts)
4. Identify one relevant Healthy People 2020 objective to this issue, Including specific targets. Compare aggregate data to HP 2020 target. (15 pts)

5. Discuss how one distal factor (think upstream such as sociopolitical, cultural,economic, or environmental) contributes to the behavior of individuals in this aggregate for this health issue. Describe findings of a research study’ that support the relationship of that distal factor and behavior to the selected health issue. (20 pts)