Assignment
Question 1
In your own words, define epidemiology. What is the use of epidemiology in community and public health?
Do you believe the government has a responsibility to study the effects of lifestyle choices associated with chronic disease (like tobacco and alcohol abuse or unhealthy diets)? Why, or why not?
Substance Abuse Case Study
As you have learned, and probably know, many people abuse different substances. There are quite a number of programs that seek to help those who struggle with substance abuse.
Select one of the following topics:
- Alcohol abuse
- Tobacco abuse
- Substance abuse
Upon selecting your topic, begin researching how community/public health programs in your community (louisiana) can help decrease the number of people using alcohol, tobacco, or other substances. Select a program, and describe the following:
1. the program you have selected,
2. the abuse issue (alcohol, tobacco, or other substance abuse) the program is striving to combat, and
3. your analysis of the program's successfulness.
Question 2
Examine the following variables that could affect the price of oil:
a. Tax credits were offered for expenditures on home insulation.
b. The Alaskan pipeline was completed.
c. A supposed ceiling on the price of oil was removed.
d. A new, very large deposit of oil was discovered.
e. Buyers in large numbers all of the sudden started driving large sport utility vehicles.
f. The use of nuclear power suddenly decreased.
Choose any two of the above variables, and describe how your selections would affect oil prices based on the supply and demand analysis
Describe the major sources of income and expenditures for households
3. (Evolution of the household) Determine whether each if the following would increase or decrease the opportunity cost for mothers who choose not to work outside the home. Explain your answer.
a. Higher levels of education for women
b. Higher unemployment for women
c. Higher average pay levels for women
d. Lower Demand for labor in industries that traditionally employ large numbers of women.
Summarize the seven roles of government in an economy
4. (Tax related) Suppose taxes are related to income as follows:
Income Taxes
$1,000 $200
$2,000 $350
$3,000 $450
a. What percent of income is paid taxes at each level?
b. Is the tax rate progressive, proportional, or regressive?
c. What is the marginal tax rate on the first $1,000 of income? The second $1,000.00? The third $1,000?
Explain why demand curve slopes downward
5. (Substitutes and Complements) For each of the following pair of goods, determine whether the goods substitutes, complements, or unrelated:
a. Peanut butter and jelly
b. Private and public transportation
c. Coke and Pepsi
d. Alarm clocks and automobiles
e. Gold clubs and golf balls
Identify five things which could shift a demand curve to the right or left:
6. (Demands Shifters) List five things that are held constant along a market demand curve, and identify the change in each that would shift that demand curve to the right-that is, that would increase demand.
Explain why a supply curve usually slopes upward
7. (Supply) Why is a firm willing and able to increase the quantity supplied as the product price increases?
Predict the impact of a change in demand or supply on the equilibrium price and quantity
8. (Equilibrium) Assume the market fir corn is depicted as in the table that appears below:
a. Complete the table below.
b. What market pressure occurs when quantity demanded exceeds quantity supplied? Explain.
c. What market pressure occurs when quantity supplied exceeds quantity demanded? Explain.
d. What is the equilibrium price?
e. What could change the equilibrium price?
f. At each price in the first column of the table below, how much is sold?
Price per Bushel Quantity Demanded Quantity Supplied Surplus/Shortage Will Price/
(Millions of Bushels) (Millions of Bushels) Rise or Fall
1.80 320 200 ____________ _______________
2.00 300 230
2.20 270 270
2.40 230 300
2.60 200 330
2.80 180 350
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include 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.
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