Population Health Concern Case Study and Policy Action Addendum Paper (Case Study/Policy Paper): 30% of course grade
When drafting this paper, imagine that you are involved as a master’s prepared nurse in providing health-related services in Paterson, NJ (direct care, administration and/or education). To serve, you will want to better understand the health needs/concerns of the population and to explore effective means of improvement. For this paper’s purposes, please choose as your focus one population health concern/issue relevant to Paterson, NJ.
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The paper should include (please organize the paper accordingly with headers):
A. Introduction: Introduce the population health issue/concern and provide a brief overview of your rationale for focusing on this health concern (1-3 paragraphs). You may focus on a specific population group in Paterson; if not specified, the assumption will be that the discussion applies to the population of Paterson. Discuss the risk and preventive factors associated with this health concern and its consequences for public health. Support your discussion with evidence. The introduction may summarize information you discuss in greater detail further in the paper.
B. Epidemiology: Provide and discuss relevant descriptive and analytical epidemiological data. Analyze and discuss data relationships considering risk, causative or protective factors, comparisons over time and comparisons to other populations.
C. Benchmarks and Strategies to Address this Health Concern: Discuss relevant established benchmarks for progress in this area of health concern (state, national and/or international benchmarks). Discuss recommended strategies to address this health concern and the evidence supporting these recommendations. Please discuss your opinion of the relevance and cultural implications of these benchmarks and strategies to the population you are focusing on. Are there other benchmarks and/or strategies you would propose? If so, please discuss and provide a rationale.
D. Policy Action Addendum: Of the strategies to address this health care concern discussed to this point, please identify one or two strategies, and discuss potential options for policy advancement that would support the strategy. Please recall that the policy advancement may be related to judicial, legislative, administrative, or regulatory policy, institutional policy, or other non-governmental policy. You might ask yourself: ‘what needs to change to better be able to engage this strategy and address this health issue, how might this relate to policy change and how would this change be made?’ This is a chance to be intellectually creative, and your ideas here should be informed by the methods and examples covered in your coursework. Several policy advancement options should be covered. (1-2 pages of the 6-9-page paper).
E. Provide reference list and correctly cite all references in text.
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*Through the course experience you will be exposed to resources and ideas that will assist in the development of this paper.
**Paper to be no longer than 6-9 pages (tables and graphs not included) and must focus on a population health concern in Paterson, NJ.