Problematic health policy related to children’s health.
Problematic health policy related to children’s health.
Your supervisor, the president of a major nonprofit global health organization (you can use one mentioned in the Power Point), told you she wants to partner with an organization in the United States (do some research to identify one) to address a problematic health policy related to children’s health.
Your supervisor asks you to write a formal letter to the other organization explaining to them why they should partner with your organization to tackle this issue.
The letter should include a description of the population and the health issue, how it relates to the other organization’s mission statement, the policy you want to change or enact, and the benefits of creating this partnership.
In order to earn full credit, this letter has to be persuasive.
Expectations:
2-3 pages. 3 cited sources from required reading
Required Reading References:
Labonté, R, & Schrecker, T. (2007). Globalization and social determinants of health: the role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3). Globalization and Health, 3(6), 1-17. Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1744-8603…
Benatar, SR, Gill, S & Bakker, I. (2011). Global Health and the Global Economic Crisis. American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 101, No. 4, pp. 646-653. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.188458. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC305232…
WHO Maximizing Positive Synergies Collaborative Group (2009). An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems. The Lancet, 373: 2137–69.
Heymann, J. (2010). Global health and social policy. Video retrieved from; https://youtu.be/pbzM9wAMIVg
Preview YouTube video Jody Heymann: Global health and social policy
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.