Health Promotion Programs Discussion Week 5

You are the director of patient services for a federally qualified health center. The department of health and human services (HHS) has announced a grant for health centers like yours to run any one of the following three health promotion programs:

Decrease cigarette smoking

Decrease osteoporosis among low-income groups

Decrease childhood respiratory illnesses

Research the above-mentioned health programs for your city, town, or any other region. Based on your research, create a 2- to 3-page report in a Microsoft Word document the includes answers to the following:

Which program would you take up? Why?

What are the critical questions that you need to have answered? Provide at least five such questions. What kind of research you will do to answer these questions?

What are the sources of information that you will use? Why?

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

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.