NURS 6521-Advocacy letter and its purpose in public health policy

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Assignment Details: What is an advocacy letter and what is its purpose in public health policy? Your role as a health educator requires that you advocate for positive health. In that capacity, you might face challenges in communicating effectively for promoting changes that enforce positive health. Advocacy letters are an effective tool that health educators may use to influence public health policy. Advocacy letters provide important information or ask policy makers to support a piece of legislation. As a written form of communication, advocacy letters may even suggest that policy makers, legislators, or community leaders earmark funding for public health and health education programs.

For this Assignment, review the Advocacy Written Letter Template, Guidelines for Writing Advocacy Letters, and Example Advocacy Letters and Resources in this week’s resources. Reflect on the health topic CHILDHOOD OBESITY. Consider how you might develop an advocacy letter to address your health topic and to whom you should send your advocacy letter.

The Assignment: (1 page)

Write an advocacy letter that focuses on your health topic for your health communication campaign.
Review the “Guidelines for Writing Advocacy Letters” document found in Week 3 Resources for specific guidance.
Be sure to address your advocacy letter to a change agent; introduce yourself by name; clearly state what you asking and the rationale; include statistics to support the need for action and cite the statistical reference (reference page recommended); and provide a personal example or story that shows you passion for the subject.
Note: This letter should be a formal letter signed by you (electronic signature) with a clear appeal to a policy maker to introduce a policy, support a piece of health legislation, or create awareness for your health topic. Manual signatures are not needed and scanned letters are not accepted by Turnitin, so electronic signatures only. The letter should be a formal single-spaced document with appropriate spelling and grammar.

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.