Assignment:
B-Global Assignment: Cancer Health Disparities
Students must submit a paper on a global cancer health disparity. Your paper must meet the following content, format and submission requirements:
CONTENT REQUIREMENTS
Students will select a cancer type and country to compare cancer prevention strategies, risk factors, cancer incidence and mortality rates, etc. to the United States.
To assist with completing this assignment, students will use the following course resources:
• Course Textbook & PPT - Ch.: Reducing the Risk for Cancer
• AACR Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2020
• National Cancer Institute: Cancer Health Disparities Video
• Global Health Websites
- CDC - Global Health
- WHO - Global Health Observatory (GHO) Data
- Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Global Health Data Exchange
Explain:
1. Background / History
2. Global Incidence & Prevalence
a. How and why some groups are more negatively impacted than others. (Global Awareness)
3. Symptoms
4. Prevention and Treatment(s)
5. Strategy for control
Explain how your new knowledge of this issue might lead to a change in your own behavior.
Who will your changes impact and what do you hope to accomplish? (Social Responsibility)
Cite at least three (3) reliable, quality references within the body of the paper using the APA Publication Manual citation style. One of the citations MUST come from the class textbook. You must have at least three parenthetical citations in the body of the paper that correctly match the sources properly formatted in the Works Cited/Reference Page.
A paper with no parenthetical source citations in its body OR no works cited section at the end of will receive a mark of 0. No second chances.
FORMAT REQUIREMENTS:
• Typed, 2 to 3 pages (not counting Works Cited Page), 12-point font, double-spaced.
• Your name, my name, HLTH 1304 (course section), and the date.
• A title is required, but a separate title page is not necessary.
• A logically organized and sequenced body followed by a clearly stated conclusion.
• Use of in-text citation format (APA formatting).
• Using encyclopedias, like Wikipedia, Ballotpedia, history.com, kids.law.com, etc. is prohibited.