Signature Assignment-Ecological Research Paper: DRAFT

Rough Draft Ecological Research Paper Instructions

Students will apply the social ecological model to a given health topic in a specific community. Students will address each level of the ecological model and identify how health promotion will be/has been used at each level to address the health topic in their specific community.

INTRODUCTION: The introduction must clearly identify the health topic and community (e.g., cultural group or population) and provide valid statistical information.

LEVELS OF THE MODEL: In the next section you need to clearly and comprehensively identify and show that you understand each of the levels in the Ecological Model of Health. In addition, you need to provide several examples within each of the levels of the model as follows:

Important: Your examples should be based on actual agencies, organizations, policies, laws, programs, recommendations, guidelines or other activities you found in your sources.

INDIVIDUAL - several specific examples of ways to increase knowledge, attitudes and behaviors regarding the health behavior.

INTERPERSONAL - several specific examples on how social networks and support can influence the issue or health behavior change (e.g. family, friends, health workers, support groups, etc).

ORGANIZATIONAL - several specific examples of how organizational systems and policies can influence the issue or health behavior change (e.g. worksite wellness programs, state/local health departments, health insurance plans, medi-care/medi-caid, etc).

COMMUNITY - several specific examples of how community efforts can influence the issue or health behavior change (e.g. faith based institutions, local media, community based organizations, research institutions, community health collaborative/coalitions).

POLICY/SOCIETAL - several specific examples of how policy efforts can influence the issue or health behavior change (e.g. Healthy People 2020, ACA, laws, federal wide programs, NIH, CDC)

SUMMARY: Summarize how the various levels of the model can affect change.

FORMAT: Students must cite at least 3 peer reviewed journal articles and include a total of 7-10 references from scholarly sources.

DO NOT INCLUDE AJNY QUOTATIONS LONGER THAN 5 WORDS.

Students must follow APA 6th edition guidelines for in-text citations and references from scholarly sources. All References on the References list must be cited in the text and all in-text citations must be listed on the References list.

Papers should be 5-8 pages in length (not including reference page and title page), 12-font, double spaced, and Times New Roman.

Strive to make each sentence are well -constructed with varied structure and to sound natural and are easy -on-the-ear when read aloud. Check for errors in grammar or spelling or capitalization that distract the reader from the content.

See the sample paper for guidance.