Climate Change and its Impact on Infectious Diseases

PHE 540 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric Overview: As a practitioner, you will often be asked questions about the causes and effects of perceived environmental threats and hazards, and you will be asked to provide research-based recommendations about those threats and hazards to policymakers, the general public, and other interested parties. In starting to work towards the completion of your final project, you will first select and introduce an environmental health topic and submit it to your instructor for approval. Prompt: Submit a draft of your introduction to the environmental hazard you have selected. For this milestone, introduce the environmental health topic that you have chosen and explain why it is considered a hazard or threat to environmental health. Be sure to summarize the literature you used to examine your topic of choice by identifying the key points from each of the sources. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: Introduction: Choose an environmental health topic with your instructor’s approval to use as the basis for your analysis and recommendations paper.

A. Briefly introduce your chosen topic. Be sure to explain why it is considered an environmental hazard or threat to environmental health, and provide evidence to support your response.

B. Cite current literature on this environmental hazard by summarizing the articles that you selected to research your topic. C. Assess the scientific value of each of the sources you cited. In other words, how credible do you feel each of the sources you have selected is for your

research on this topic? Be sure to justify your reasoning. D. What are the key points you drew from each of these sources, and from which section(s) of the article or paper did you cull them?

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least 3 sources cited in APA format. Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Introduction: Introduce

Briefly introduces chosen topic and explains why it is considered an environmental hazard or threat to environmental health, providing evidence to support response

Introduces chosen topic and explains why it is considered an environmental hazard or threat to environmental health, providing evidence to support response, but response is wordy or lacks required detail or relevant support

Does not introduce chosen topic, does not explain why it is considered an environmental hazard or threat to environmental health, and does not provide evidence to support response

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Introduction: Literature

Cites current literature on topic by summarizing articles selected for researching topic

Cites current literature on topic by summarizing articles selected for researching topic, but with gaps in required detail or relevance to the chosen topic

Does not cite current literature on topic by summarizing articles selected for researching topic

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Introduction: Scientific Value

Logically assesses the scientific value of each of the sources cited, justifying reasoning

Assesses the scientific value of each of the sources cited, justifying reasoning, but with gaps in logic or required detail

Does not assess the scientific value of each of the sources cited and does not justify reasoning

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Introduction: Key Points

Comprehensively describes key points drawn from each source and section(s) from which they were culled

Describes key points drawn from each source and section(s) from which they were culled, but with gaps in required detail

Does not describe key points drawn from each source or section(s) from which they were culled

22

Articulation of Response

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

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Total 100%