Assignment: Improving Public Health Law

Select one public health issue that is a concern in your state. Using descriptive statistics provide an overview of the public health issue. Include the target population, the impact to the population, and the financial costs. Present at least two public health laws that either support or oppose the public health issue that you have selected. Discuss how the public health law impacts health outcomes. Explain if the law should be maintained as it is, revised, or removed and how potential changes would impact the population.

Using the South University Online Library, the readings for this week, and the Internet, select a current public health issue that is of interest to you. Write a 3- to 5-page report in Microsoft Word format.

Note: Information related to laws can be obtained through the health department and state websites. Laws pertain to reporting, data collection, treatment, and education regarding public health issues. Examples include public health laws governing reportable conditions or the treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Support your statements with scholarly references and appropriate examples. Cite all sources using the APA format.

Assignment 3 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Identified and described one relevant public health issue to include statistics.

Examined the population, impact, and financial costs of the public health issue.

Identified at least two public health laws that are directly related to the public health issue.

Explained recommendations for maintaining or revising the public health law.

Discussed how the public health laws impact outcomes associated with the public health issue.

Presented a structured document free of spelling and grammatical errors.

Properly cited sources using APA format.

Used at least five current and relevant references.

Total:

100

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.