Week 5 – Final Assignment

Significant Contributions to Public Health Final Assignment Part

[WLO: 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Prior to working on this assignment, review your work on Part 1 of the Final Assignment from Week 3, and integrate any instructor feedback you received. Review the grading rubric for this assignment to fully understand the grading criteria. Additionally, these resources from Week 3 remain helpful:

• Assigned chapters in the textbook
• Intro to Epidemiology Study Types (Links to an external site.) video
• Introduction to Epidemiology and Public Health (Links to an external site.) video
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Links to an external site.) website
• World Health Organization (Links to an external site.) website

This is a continuation of your Final Assignment. In Week 3, you worked on Significant Contributions to Public Health Final Assignment Part 1. This week, Part 2 involves an analysis of how your individual’s contribution from the past continues to contribute to today’s public health system, and how it might guide future work within the industry. As you recall, in Week 3, you researched an individual and their contribution to community and public health.

Your Week 3 assignment should have included each of the following elements:

• Describe your selected person’s experience.
• Analyze the climate of the time period in terms of political, socioeconomic, environmental, and technological context in which this person worked.
• Examine the personal beliefs of your person that prompted this work.
• Examine how this individual overcame any adversities to succeed.
• Describe the final outcome of this individual’s contribution to community or public health.
• Explain what this person’s contribution did for overall community or public health at the time.
• Explain why this contribution was so important at that particular point in history.

Use the outline below to organize your paper or presentation. Do not type the “Steps” into your paper or presentation. Rather, formulate a well thought out analysis with logical transitions as you would a professional paper or presentation. The grading rubric will be your guide for all the points you need to address in your final submission. Research and critical thinking is a large component of this project. You will curate resources to support your statements using proper APA Style (Links to an external site.).

This week you will be adding the second half to your project by completing the following steps:

• Step 1: Integrate Significant Contributions to Public Health Final Assignment Part 1 from Week 3, including any revisions based on feedback you received.
• Step 2: Examine the individual’s contribution to community or public health.
• Step 3: Analyze the impact of your individual’s contribution on today’s public health system.
  • TIP: You are asking, “What happened as a result of this contribution at the national and community level?” For example, some elements you could address include:
    • Did it change attitudes?
    • Did it change protocols and policies?
    • Did behavior change result?
    • Did it add or eliminate laws?
• Step 4: Analyze how this contribution is still relevant today.
  • TIP: Was this contribution only applicable at the time it occurred, or is it still applied today? Why or why not? Explain your response.
• Step 5: Examine how this contribution could support or be expanded for future community and public health benefits.
  • TIP: Using solid critical thinking, look at the historical value of the contribution and examine how it could be used for the future (is it applicable to another health issue, can it lead to more policy change, could it promote advocacy work or public health laws, etc.).

You have a choice of which format you wish to present your findings. You can choose either a written paper or a presentation format. Follow the instructions for the option you choose below.

The Significant Contributions to Public Health Final Project, Part 2

• Must be six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
    For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
  • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
• Must use at least eight scholarly, peer-reviewed, and credible sources (one of those may be the course text).
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, or Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. The Ashford University Library is a great place to find resources. Watch the Quick n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial for research tips. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.