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Deliverable 2 - Cultural, Socioeconomic, and Behavioral Factors Concept Map

Competency

Analyze the influence of cultural, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors on public health.

Scenario

As a public health nurse at a community clinic, your supervisor has asked you to research and examine childhood obesity in the community. You have been asked to create a visual concept map to be shared during a staff meeting to illustrate your findings on the cultural, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors that are contributing to childhood obesity as well as determining how the community clinic can promote healthy behaviors to address childhood obesity.

Instructions

Create a visual concept map on child obesity and the factors influencing childhood obesity that:

· Identifies a specific community to research and provides statistical data on childhood obesity in the selected community.

· Analyzes the cultural, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors that influence childhood obesity.

· Illustrates the connection between childhood obesity, behavior, culture, and socioeconomic status.

· Describes how the promotion of health behaviors will help to reduce and ultimately eliminate childhood obesity.

· Explains ways the public health nurse can support healthy behaviors while responding to the diverse needs in the community.

· Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the visual concept map.

RUBRIC

Exemplary identification of specific community and provided comprehensive statistical data on childhood obesity.

Exemplary analysis of the factors that influence childhood obesity with comprehensive information on each factor: cultural factors, socioeconomic factors, and behavioral factors.

Exemplary illustration of the connection between childhood obesity, behavior, culture, and socioeconomic status with comprehensive example(s)

Exemplary description of how the promotion of health behaviors will help to reduce and ultimately eliminate childhood obesity with comprehensive example(s)

Exemplary explanation of ways the public health nurse can support healthy behaviors with comprehensive example(s) of response to the diverse needs in the community.

Provided stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the in the visual concept map

Deliverable 3 - Public Health Policy Executive Summary

Competency

Evaluate the impact of local, state, and national policy on public health.

Scenario

As a public health nurse, you have been asked to put together an executive summary of the impact of the Federal Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) program on the health of pregnant women, infants, and children in your state.

This executive summary will be used by the agency director to provide the staff with a broad overview of the impact federal legislation can have on state decisions, as well as how policy can affect the populations you serve.

Instructions

Prepare an executive summary for the agency director that:

· Summarizes the purpose of the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program.

· Evaluates the impact of the WIC program across local, state, and national levels focusing on four key areas:

. Birth outcomes

. Health care costs

. Infant feeding practices

. Immunization rates of children

· Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the executive summary.

Resources

Websites

· Policy Map

· United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service

· United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service

Rubric

Exemplary summary of the purpose of the Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) program with comprehensive example(s).

Exemplary evaluation of the WIC program's impact on birth outcomes with comprehensive detail(s) across local, state, and national levels.

Exemplary evaluation of the WIC program's impact on health care costs with comprehensive detail(s) across local, state, and national levels.

Exemplary evaluation of the WIC program's impact on infant feeding practices with comprehensive detail(s) across local, state, and national levels.

Exemplary evaluation of the WIC program's impact on immunization rates of children with comprehensive detail(s) across local, state, and national levels

Provided stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the in the executive summary.