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Healthy Savannah Obesity Community Action Plan

Option #2: The Community Action Plan: Written Report and Handout Your Portfolio Project for this class is a Community Action Plan designed to alleviate or correct a public health issue in your community. Your community can be your business, school, neighborhood, town or city of residence or birth, or county. For Option #2, your Community Action […]

Managers Balance Between Loyalty to Organization and Personal Ethic

Managers must achieve the difficult balance between loyalty to the organization and fidelity to their personal ethic and professional integrity. How far should a manager go in following the crowd or in standing alone?”. Address this question with details and supporting/opposing opinions. ALL FORUMS Initial Response: Initial responses should be no less than 200 words […]

Spatial Temporal Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Mainland China

Select an article on a public health issue that utilizes one of the following cutting-edge research methods: Bayesian methods Causal inference methods Geographic information systems Network meta-analysis Gene-environment interactions Genome-wide association studies Systematic narrative reviews Consider how the method was used and why it is considered cutting-edge. In addition, think about whether an alternative method […]

Physician assisted suicide

Describe some of the legal and ethical issues surrounding physician-assisted suicides. What implications does it have on health services managers and health economics as a whole? Assignments are to be a minimum of 2 full pages of text and 3 reputable references in proper APA format.

State Designing Healthy Communities Action Plan

Before you begin crafting your discussion response for this week, be sure to read the required materials and watch Episode Four of the Designing Healthy Communities PBS miniseries. An audio transcript of this video is attached below. These episodes are designed to work with the readings to give you a broad understanding of the topics that we […]

Global Public Health Issues

Consider the public health issue you selected for your course project. As you think about your issue from a global perspective, what aspects of it have the most influence beyond your community and have implications for the global community. Think in terms of things like lifestyle, population dynamics, disease, climate change, disaster response, etc. With […]

Ethical Issues in Screening for Genetic Diseases

Select an scholary article related to a genetic disease. The disease you select can be either a genetic disease, or a disease that is believed to have a genetic component that might make an individual predisposed towards the disease. Consider the ethical issues related to screening for genetic disease. With these thoughts in mind: Write […]

Criminal Justice Alternatives Press Release

Write a 2 page APA format description of the research article (attached). Create a press release that accurately reflects the design, findings, and recommendations that can be easily disseminated to the lay public. Explain the most critical element of the study that should be communicated to the lay public. Finally, discuss how the presentation of […]

End of life ethical decisions

2. Ethical issues arising from end-of-life decisions are among the most common that health services organizations and their clinical and managerial staff encounter. Technology is central to the ethical and legal problems surrounding dying”. How is technology of a part of this ethical issue of dying/death? Identify ways or laws that may hinder or assist […]

Meta Analysis of Observational Studies in Epidemiology

Write a 2 page APA format summary of your informed opinion regarding the validity of the use of meta-analysis in epidemiological research. Include at least two strengths or limitations of meta-analysis as a systematic review technique. Provide evidence from at least one of the articles (attached) and justify your position.