Health Topic-1

1. Visit the Web site for the American Public Health Association (APHA)( http://www.apha.org/news-and-media/news-releases) or (http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/) or (http://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/current). Read the highlights from the current issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Which of the public health sciences does each of these articles belong to (i.e. epidemiology, biomedical, statistics, etc.)? List 3 article titles that you read and what public health science each one belongs to (some have more than one).

2. Also, visit the Web site for The Nation’s Health, the official newspaper of the APHA (http://thenationshealth.aphapublications.org). Read the headlines of the current issue to get an idea of the range of topics encompassed by the field of public health. List the one you were most interested in and why. Your response should be 1/2 to 1 page long, typed and uploaded as a word document. See syllabus for required details for assignments.