Assignment: Health Promotion Programs

You are the director of patient services for a federally qualified health center. The department of health and human services (HHS) has announced a grant for health centers like yours to run any one of the following three health promotion programs:

• Decrease cigarette smoking
• Decrease osteoporosis among low-income groups
• Decrease childhood respiratory illnesses

Research the above-mentioned health programs for your city, town, or any other region. Based on your research, create a 2- to 3-page report in a Microsoft Word document the includes answers to the following:

• Which program would you take up? Why?

• What are the critical questions that you need to have answered? Provide at least five such questions. What kind of research you will do to answer these questions?

• What are the sources of information that you will use? Why?