1. Develop a 1 page executive summary about the topic, “Designing Healthy Communities for Healthy Living“
Please follow the guide below to write a 3 page paper.
a) Is the public health topic clearly related to one or more documented health
outcomes? What is the evidence for the relationship? (In some cases, provide a more
specific definition for the behavior; for example, if a topic concerned “physical
activity” possibly choose to narrow the behavior to “walking for exercise.” Also, the
student may wish to select one particular health outcome to focus on).
b) How common (prevalent) is the public health topic? How common
(prevalent) is the health outcome? The assigned topics indicate a potential population
of interest, but may need to be defined more specifically (for example, if the assigned
topic says “in adolescents,” is there a particular geographic or demographic group of
interest?).
c) Background information about the public health topic – What makes the
public health topic more likely to occur? What makes the public health topic relevant?
Some things to examine could be characteristics of the public health topic itself (for
example, the behavior might be very pleasurable, habitual, or involve addiction), the
individual (personal characteristics), society (social norms, what others are doing) and
the larger environment (resources, policies) that make the public health topic easier or
more difficult to address.
d) Reference formatting, clarity, and mechanics (e.g., grammar, spelling,
punctuation, proper citations). References should include primary peer- reviewed literature
and government reports; as a general rule, do not cite Web pages except in unusual circumstances,
for example, to identify organizational policies or to describe the type of information or advice
generally available to the public.
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