Overview
Milestone One: Introduction to Selected Public Health Issue - Childhood obesity
In Milestone One, you will select an intervention and its corresponding health topic and then frame this topic as a public health issue. This milestone is graded with the Final Project Milestone One Rubric and is due at the end of Module Two.
PromptYou can use the optional Public Health Issues Analysis Tool, which is located in Module Two resource section of your course, to guide you in the process of identifying and analyzing public health issues. Note: Do not submit this tool for grading; it is intended solely as a tool to help you organize the required information for your report.The following critical elements must be addressed:I. Introduction to Selected Public Health Issue- Childhood obesityA. Intervention: Identify and summarize an intervention related to a public health issue.• Identify your public health intervention by using either one Healthy People implementation story from HealthyPeople.gov or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.• When summarizing the public health intervention, include all of the following information: Prevention Level: Using the CDC Prevention document, describe the main prevention level used by the intervention (for example, primary, secondary, tertiary). Examine the science of the prevention level using evidence and examples. Levels of Prevention
Level 0: Primordial- Eliminating disparities and risk factors toward zero (social and environmental)
Level 1: Primary- Preventing adverse health status by minimizing risk factors (behavioral) Level 2: Secondary- Minimizing the impact on health status (screening and early intervention)
Level 3: Tertiary- Minimizing the adverse impact of disease or condition through treatment Level 4: Quaternary- Minimizing harm from medical intervention itself (e.g., overmedicalization)
Health Service Delivered: Determine the main public health service delivered using the CDC’s 10 Essential Public Health Services.
Explain how the service fulfills a core function of public health. • Notes: Focus on the specific issue that the intervention addressed, not the organization. Also, make certain to frame the intervention in terms of population or community health, not healthcare, medicine, or individual patients. 10 Essential Services of Public Health 1. Monitor health status to identify community health problems. 2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and hazards in the community. 3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues. 4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems. 5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community efforts. 6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety. 7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of healthcare when unavailable. 8. Assure a competent public and personal healthcare workforce. 9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services. 10. Research innovative solutions to health problems. Table 2 B. Significance: Discuss your issue’s significance to public health. • Identify one Healthy People topic area that connects to the intervention. You may find a list of topic areas on HealthyPeople.gov by visiting the Objectives and Data tab. Note: Sometimes, multiple topic areas are aligned to the same intervention. For example, if the intervention topic focuses on childhood obesity, the following topic areas could be relevant: nutrition and weight status, physical fitness, and diabetes. Select only one topical area. • Review the topic area’s main page (that is, only the Overview and Objectives tab—which is the default). If provided, explore the list of sources on this page that are provided as hyperlinks or detailed in the reference list—if it is available for free in the library or online. Continue to explore this topic area until you can address the following prompts: Identify the population or community that was the focus of the intervention. Describe the shared characteristics among this population or community and whether these characteristics were merely geographical or included other characteristics, for example, demographics. Describe why this population or community was identified as needing public health services. Include data or evidence to support your claims.
Historical: Provide a historical public health perspective about your issue.
• Examine the evidence or data from three different publications. Each source should have a different publication year. The publications should illustrate an understanding of the issue with respect to the particular periods in time that are chosen. • Compare the three sources and summarize the similarities and differences. Provide examples, as needed. Resource Quality and Quantity Source Quantity Publication Year Quality Sources Need Assistance? The expected minimum quantity of scholarly sources used conforms to the following ratio: 1 source per page Therefore, a 6-page submission should have at least six scholarly sources. This guideline is a minimum. You are encouraged to use more sources, as needed. Information tends to lose its usability over time. This principle is why physicians do not use sources from the 1980s for valid HIV treatment information, for example. Sources without a publication year automatically prevent you from understanding their validity. Do not use “n.d.” sources. Preferred: The most up-to-date publications Acceptable: Publications within the past 5 years Possible: Publications within the past 10 years Only Historical Use: Publications older than 10 years Scholarly sources are those sources of information that provide optimal validity and reliability of content. These sources adhere to the following criteria: • Credible—from trained experts • Authoritative—from industry entities What to Submit: Milestone One should be completed using the Final Project Template document. Any sources should be cited according to the latest APA style. Consult the APA Style Guide available through the Shapiro Library for more information on citations. Final Project Milestone One Rubric
Critical Elements Exceeds Expectations (100%) Meets Expectations (90%) Partially Meets Expectations (70%)