Assignment
Assume that you are working in a community health department. The department has some federal money that it wants to allocate to two health promotion programs from the following:
i. Decrease in deaths from cardiovascular disease
ii. Decrease in deaths from breast cancer
iii. Decrease in teenage pregnancy
iv. Decrease in cigarette smoking
v. Decrease in incidence of diabetes
vi. Decrease in motor vehicle accidents
vii. Decrease in osteoporosis and hip fractures among women
viii. Decrease in obesity
Identify the health promotion programs that you would want to investigate and get them approved by your instructor.
Write 3 to 4 pages report in a Microsoft Word document, addressing the following questions:
i. Identify the risk factors associated with the selected health promotion programs.
ii. What is the target population associated with the selected health promotion program? Consider the hypothetical target population, consisting of middle-aged women, male adolescent gang members, premature infants, etc., and describe the characteristics of each program.
iii. What are the risk factors that you want to focus on in order to achieve the objective of the health promotion program?
iv. What intervention would you recommend to be most appropriate to reduce exposure to these risk factors? You can choose at what level of intervention you want to implement each program (primary, secondary, tertiary health intervention).
v. What will be the process by which this intervention will achieve the goal of the program?
vi. What will be the anticipated outcome of this intervention?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.