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:

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:

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.

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 250-300 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 and 2 into an APA Style formatted paper (with title page and reference list) and submit to the Dropbox for grading.