CHILDHOOD OBESITY: Public Health Issue

Please read the description of the question thoroughly. The healthcare issue you will be writing about is CHILDHOOD OBESITY.

Public health issue chosen is childhood obesity. Paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources c

ited in APA format.

Submit your analysis in a letter format that you may use to develop speaker’s notes for your final presentation.

Prompt: Write a letter to a stakeholder to describe and defend your proposed policy.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Evaluation of Policy

A. Discuss the current economic and legal landscape related to your public health issue. To what extent do existing policies (or the lack thereof) have positive or negative impacts to the American healthcare system?

B. Explain your proposed policy using evidence and examples to illustrate. 1. What are the specific operational strategies that you believe are necessary for addressing your chosen issue and why? 2. What role do the major healthcare organizations play in your proposed policy? To what extent can their position in the marketplace be harnessed?

C. Defend your proposed policy for addressing the public health issue with specific research and evidence. 1. How will your proposed public policy improve the American healthcare system in terms of healthcare quality, costs, and accessibility? 2. In what ways is your proposed policy informed by the larger socioeconomic factors that can influence public health?

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.