BIOLOGY homework

Creating A Fact Sheet

For the final assignment for the Community Health Project, you will be creating a fact sheet based on your research from Human Health and Physiology and Identifying Risk Factors and Solutions.

The idea behind creating a fact sheet is to inform the general public about an issue. Specifically, your target audience will be the residents of the community that you identified as being particularly vulnerable to poor health outcomes. You should assume that your audience will have a limited scientific background. You will be writing from the perspective of your medical specialty (but do not write in 1st person - see the example on this page), but your goal is to make the science that you researched understandable to a general audience while including the sources from your background research.

Assignment Requirements

While your final fact sheet will contain graphics, this assignment is just asking you to submit the text and your graph. As you are writing each section of your fact sheet, please use the third person (do not use I/we) and think about considering how the elements fit together to create a fact sheet with good flow -- it should proceed logically. Address each of the prompts below:

• An introduction
  • In a brief paragraph, identify the health condition that you are focusing on and explain how the solution could improve health outcomes for your focal community (This information should come from Identifying Risk Factors and Solutions.).
  • How does this solution address the risk factor that you identified? How would this reduce the prevalence of the health condition?
• An overview of the health condition
  • Summarize what residents in your focal community should know about the physiology of the health condition.
  • How does the risk factor increase someone's chance of developing the health condition?
    • Focus on the risk factor that your solution targets.
    • Be specific and provide details about the physiological connection between the risk factor and the health condition.
  • What steps can residents take to reduce their risk of developing the health condition?
• A bullet point list of key facts, including:
  • The statistics for the risk factors related to the health condition, as relevant to your focal community. (Refer back to Identifying Risk Factors and Solutions if necessary.)
  • The % of adults in your focal community that exhibits the health condition.
• A bar graph
  • Create a bar graph comparing the prevalence of the health condition in your focal community to three other communities. (Use the data provided in Human Health and Physiology.)
  • Be sure to properly label the x- and y-axes!
  • Unsure how to make a bar graph? Check out the tutorial in the Helpful Resources section below!
• A community solution
  • Restate the solution and how it relates to the health condition.
  • Briefly discuss the organization, program, or movement you selected as part of Identifying Risk Factors and Solutions. How does it relate to the solution and how could it improve health outcomes for residents? I would suggest going back and reviewing the Social Determinants of Health lesson to help you in writing this section.
    • Los Angeles Play Streets Program
    • Mobile Recreation Program
    • Tree People
    • San Gabriel Mountain Trailbuilders
    • Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust
    • Gangsta Gardening
  • How could residents support this organization, program, or movement?
• References cited
  • Remember to cite all information sources fully, including in-text citations and a properly formatted reference list at the end, for full credit. Please make sure that your sources are credible and that you properly cite all sources.
  • You can use any citation style you would like (MLA, APA, etc.). Here is PCC's guide to APA style.

Required - Incorporating Feedback

• What instructor feedbackLinks to an external site. have you received on previous parts of the project, if any?
• How have you addressed or incorporated this feedback? Be specific and explain how you can use this feedback to improve your final fact sheet.

Example Fact Sheet

Remember, for this assignment, you are just submitting the text and graph. No graphics are necessary! This example fact sheet is just to provide an example of how the information fits together.

Here is the pdf version of the example fact sheet

if you would like to see anything in more detail. You can also view the text as a Canvas page.

Submission Guidelines

Submit this assignment as a pdf.

Grading

Since the purpose of this assignment is to participate in the peer review, you must submit on time in order to earn credit. This assignment will be graded as complete/incomplete. The content itself will be graded as it appears in your final fact sheet. The rubric attached to this assignment is to help guide your peer review.

Peer Review

Upon completion of this assignment, you will be assigned two peer reviews to complete. Note: if you do not submit the Community Health Fact Sheet - Text and Graph Only assignment by the due date, you may miss out on the peer review activity.

This is an opportunity for you to see what others have been working on and for everyone to receive constructive feedback on their fact sheet before submitting the final version next week. Please review the assignment directions and complete the rubric first, then give written comments to your peers. After filling out the rubric, choose at least two of the prompts below to formulate your comments for each of your peers.

• What are two things you think they communicated in their fact sheet really well?
• What is one place they used a source or the data in their fact sheet that worked really well?
• What is one place they might be able to strengthen their fact sheet by making better or different use of a source or the data?
• Make one or two general suggestions for how they could strengthen their fact sheet. This could be to add material, reorganize a paragraph or sentence, clarify language, or make any other changes to increase clarity.
• Suggest corrections to any grammatical issues in the text or formatting issues with the graph.

Helpful Resources

• How do I make a bar graph?Links to an external site.
• How do I upload a file as an assignment submission in Canvas?
• How do I know if a source is credible?
• How do I know if I have a peer review assignment to complete?Links to an external site.
• How do I submit a peer review to an assignment?Links to an external site.
• Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer-reviewed assignments?Links to an external site.
• How do I view assignment comments from my instructor?Links to an external site.

Rubric

Fact Sheet Rubric (SP23)

Fact Sheet Rubric (SP23)

Criteria	Ratings
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeScience Content	Excellent Fact sheet provides a relevant, accurate description of the physiology of the health condition. Fact sheet describes connections between risk factors and health condition as well as the potential benefits of proposed solution for community health, demonstrating an excellent understanding of the underlying biological concepts and effectively synthesizing information from multiple relevant, credible sources. Good Fact sheet provides a description of the physiology of the health condition. Fact sheet describes connections between risk factors and health condition as well as the potential benefits of proposed solution for community health, demonstrating a general understanding of the underlying biological concepts and including information from multiple relevant, credible sources. Descriptions or explanations would benefit from more specificity or detail. Developing Fact sheet provides some description of the physiology of the health condition. Fact sheet describes risk factors as well as the potential benefits of proposed solution for community health, demonstrating some understanding of the underlying biological concepts and incorporating information from at least one relevant, credible source. Some parts of the science content incomplete, contains inaccuracies or needs more specific connection to the physiology of the health condition. Needs Improvement Multiple content areas incomplete. Fact provides minimal description of the physiology of the health condition and/or does not describe connections between risk factor and health condition or potential benefits of solution for community health. No submission
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeUse of Data	Excellent Data on prevalence of health condition and risk factors is effectively used to support statements about health of the community and the need for the proposed solution. Good Data on prevalence of health condition and risk factor is included, but needs stronger connection to community health and the need for the proposed solution. Developing Does not include all required data or describe relevance to community health and the need for the proposed solution. Not Attempted No data on prevalence of health condition and risk factors included.
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGraph	Complete A properly formatted graph with labeled x- and y-axes is included that compares the prevalence of the health condition in the focal city to three other communities. Minor deductions Includes a bar graph comparing the prevalence of the health condition in the focal city to three other communities, but graph is missing one required element. Incomplete Includes a graph, but it is missing multiple required elements, inaccurately represents data, or is not a bar graph. Not Attempted
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeCitations	Complete Credible, relevant sources are used, with in-text citations and a reference list with full citations. Incomplete In-text citations are missing, OR citations are not properly formatted, OR sources are not credible. Not Attempted No sources cited.
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeSpelling and Grammar	Full Credit Submission has no (or only minor) spelling and grammar errors. Spelling/Grammar Deduction 10% deduction for excessive spelling and grammar errors