Final paper

Criteria

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Introduction: Overview:  Provides a brief, evidence-based overview, including a description of the chosen country, its socioeconomic and demographic profile, and the prevalent health concerns within the population.

Refer to the  1-2 project prep  assignment.

Please review each assignment to make you have: 

· Identified selected country – refer to 1-2 project prep.

· Demographic profile – country & population

· Prevalent health concerns – specific health challenge (Covid, Ebola, malaria, malnutrition)

· Remember to support your claims.

Introduction: Purpose & Value: Articulates the purpose and value of the proposed trip, including the extent to which it will promote health equity, human rights, and social justice

Articulates the purpose & value for the proposed humanitarian aid trip.

Make sure students addressed:

· Promoting health equity

· Promoting human rights

· Promoting social justice

· Remember to support your claims.

Analysis: Resource Availability: Evaluates the impact of resource availability (including water, sanitation, food, and air) as a determinant of health for the population, and supports claims with specific evidence

Evaluate the availability or not of resources (water, sanitation, food, air) in the selected country? 

· Do they have access to & clean water?

· Do they have clean or poor sanitation (for example – open defecation)?

· Do they have access to food/food shortage/food insecurity?

· How is the air quality/pollution/

contaminants?

Remember to support your claims.

Analysis: Access to Care and Quality of Health Services: Analyzes the impacts of access to care and quality of health services on morbidity and mortality for the population, and supports claims with specific evidence

Refer to the  3-2 project prep  related to morbidity & mortality & inequities).

· Did you analyze access to care & quality of health care services related to target population of identified country? 

· Did you address morbidity & mortality related to selected health challenge?

· Did you support your claims?

Analysis: Cultural Context: Describes how the cultural context influences perceptions of health and disease and its impacts on health outcomes, and supports claims with specific evidence.

Refer to the  4-2 project prep  assignment.

· What are the common attributes of ethnicity?

· Social & economic impacts related to health challenge (potential job loss, main income person, poverty, sanitation, food shortages)?

· How does the target population perceive or do they have a lack of understanding related to the health challenge?

· Do you understand route of transmission (for example: malaria)?

· Did you support your claims?

Analysis: Other Determinants: Identifies other environmental, biological, or social determinants of health relevant for the population, and supports claims with specific evidence

Refer to the  3-2 project prep  assignment

· Environmental (air pollution, climate, clean water & sanitation, contaminated food & water)

· Biological (age, sex, HIV status, inherited conditions, family history, genetics)

· Social (economic, education, healthcare access)

· Did you support your claims?

Evaluation: Policies: Assesses the impact of relevant health and non-health policies on healthcare access, equity, and social justice for the target population, and supports claims with specific evidence

Refer the  3-2 & 5-2 project prep  assignments.

· Are there any governmental policies related to health challenge?

· Are there any non-health policies identified in country?

· How do the policies address equity?

· How do the policies address social justice?

· Did you support your claims?

Evaluation: Systems: Evaluates the impacts of healthcare infrastructure and systems on healthcare access, equity, and social justice for the target population, and supports claims with specific evidence

Refer to the  2-1 activity  assignment.

· What type of health insurance does the selected country have (private, public, universal)?

· Where does funding for insurance come from?

· What about access to health care services?

· How does this affect equity?

· How does this affect social justice?

· Did you support your claims?

Recommendations: Intervention: Explains the nature and requirements of the intervention within the context of a humanitarian aid trip, including how it addresses the issues identified in the analysis and evaluation sections with specific connections drawn to prior research

Refer to the 6-2 project prep assignment.

· The recommendation & proposed intervention should be evidence-based.

· The intervention was addressed in the 6-2 project prep assignment.

· Is it a traditional or conventional intervention?

· Is it an integrative intervention?

· Did you support you claims?

Recommendations: Social Justice: Defends the recommendation in terms of its application of social justice and human rights principles, and supports claims with specific evidence

Refer to the 1-1 discussion.

· How does the recommended intervention support & apply the concept of social justice?

· How does the recommended intervention support & apply human rights principles?

· Did you support your claims?

Recommendations: Strengthen Communities and Reduce Health Disparities: Defends the recommendation in terms of its potential to strengthen communities and reduce health disparities, and supports claims with specific evidence

· How does the recommended intervention strengthen communities?

· How does the recommended intervention reduce health disparities?

· Did you support your claims?

Recommendations: Effectiveness and Sustainability: Defends their recommendation in terms of its likely effectiveness and sustainability, and supports claims with specific evidence

· How will the recommended intervention remain effective after the humanitarian team leaves?

· How will the recommended intervention remain sustainable after the humanitarian team leaves?

· Did  you support your claims?

Articulation of Response

As I review the articulation of response section, keep in mind the following:

· Did you include a title page?

· Did you include a reference page?

· Are there level I headings?

· Any grammatical errors?

· Did you include in-text citations to support their statements? 

Scholarly Sources

To meet exemplary  – there should at least  eleven (11)  sources.

As we review the number of scholarly sources, keep in mind that references should be within the recommended five-year time frame (2018 thru 2023).

APA Style

As you review format of reference citations: 

· Is each reference following APA 7th edition?

· Are there capitalization, italic, or punctuation errors?

· Is the name of the journal – italicized? Is each word in the title of the journal – upper case?

· Is there a DOI number?

· Are there page numbers?