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Unit5Assignment-PU500FoundationsinPublicHealth.pdf
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Team Assignment
Local, National, and Global Public Health Approaches Unit Outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
• Design strategies for continuous quality improvement in
public health.
• Identify strategies for promoting health equity.
Course Outcomes assessed in this Assignment:
PU5004: Describe how public health practice addresses health concerns locally, nationally, and globally.
Introduction:
This Assignment builds upon your work started in the Unit
3 Looking Ahead. In the Unit 5 Assignment, you will:
● Describe how public health practice addresses health concerns locally, nationally, and globally.
● Leverage policies and laws to address public health issues.
● Apply the strategic planning process to resolve a health problem.
To reach these learning goals, this Assignment guides you
through the completion of two critical parts of this project:
● Part 1 - SWOT Analysis
● Part 2 - Evaluation of strategic planning process and related policies/laws
You will finalize both sections of your Unit 5 Assignment
and submit as one document to the Dropbox for grading.
Instructions:
Part 1 SWOT Analysis:
Assignment Details
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Using the table below, you will apply strategic planning
techniques to evaluate selected local, national, and global
health issues. You identified these issues in the Unit 3
Looking Ahead. You will expand your analysis of the
policies and laws by conducting a SWOT analysis.
● First column: Please use the “Level & Issue” column to note a brief overview of the issue at the particular level.
● Second column: This column does not need editing, as it organizes the rest of the chart by SWOT element.
● Third column: You should list at least three items per SWOT component for each level--one sentence per item
will suffice.
● Fourth column: You will integrate the Unit 3 Looking Ahead coursework into this column.
● Fifth column: Notate your sources in this column.
Level & Issue SWOT SWOT
Components Related Health Policy/Law
Citation(s)
Local Level:
[Insert 1 2 sentence summary of health issue here]
Strengths Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Weaknesses Item
1
Item 2
Item 3
Opportunities Item
1
Item 2
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Item 3
Threats
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
National
Level:
[Insert 1 2 sentence summary of health issue here]
Strengths Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Weaknesses Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Opportunities Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Threats Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Global
Level:
[Insert 1 2 sentence summary of health
Strengths Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
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issue
here]
Weaknesses
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Opportunities
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Threats
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Part 2 Strategic Planning:
You will gather your notes for each
SWOT analysis and present a “Discussion”
section in which you describe how public health
practice addresses health concerns locally, nationally,
and globally. Your discussion section should be at least 750
1000 words in length (about 250300 words per local, national,
and global level health issue). It is recommended that you
use subheadings to delineate the various levels of public health. See
example below:
Please collate parts 1
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and 2 into an APA Style formatted paper (with title page and reference list) and submit to the Dropbox for grading. Grading Criteria Be sure to review the grading rubric for this Assignment in the Course Resources. When ready submit to unit dropbox.
