Evidence-Based Practice Statistics

Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment:

• Design a patient, population, or public health education material that follows the National Health Education Standards.

Course outcome assessed/addressed in this Assignment:

• HA535-1: Articulate a plan to obtain data on a health-related topic.

Instructions

In this Assignment, you will be locating and using evidence to support a specific health-based concern or topic. Using the resources available to you, locate a health-related topic in your community (e.g., local, state, or regional). You will communicate this health-related topic to others.

PLEASE ASSIGNMENT CANNOT BE PLAGIARIZED. This is worth 250 points!

My chosen  topic is Diabetes or Adult Obesity

Requirements

• Locate a health-related topic in your community (e.g., local, state, or regional).
• Using one (1) of the methods below, develop a communication initiative that best educates your community on this health-related topic:
  • 2-page fact sheet on the health-related topic (e.g., disease, condition, addiction). OR 
  • Letter to your state representative informing him/her of the importance of the identified health-related topic.
• Your communication initiative should portray a real-life, health-related topic in your community. The use of factual data is required for this Assignment.
• The use of first person is permitted for this Assignment. APA formatting (title page, conclusion, reference page, etc.) should not be used. Remember, you are developing a current communication initiative for your community.
• Although the use of APA formatting is not required for this Assignment, proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation are expected.  However, make sure most of your facts are from CDC.gov