a. The paper is limited to 10-15 pages only, not including references

b. Paper Focus: Find a topic of interest to you in public health and develop your paper around a question you have regarding this topic. You may want to analyze a public health intervention or propose your own intervention to a public health problem.

For instance, teenage pregnancy has been regarded as a public health problem. Your paper may question whether sex education is more effective, at combating teenage pregnancy, over abstinence only education.

c. Your paper should cite research in your review of literature. Including a description of the public health problem indicating the burden of disease, such as but not limited to morbidity, mortality, and changes that have occurred in recent years. Describe the course of the disease or condition using the concepts of incidence, prevalence and case-fatality.

If these concepts are not relevant to your subject explain what they mean and why they are not relevant. Identify at least one at-risk group (those with an increased probability of developing and/or experiencing bad outcomes). Use the concept of relative risk to describe their probability of developing the condition or specific disease(s) relative to a specific low risk group.

d. Identify a potential intervention to address the problem. Identify the primary focus in terms of When (Primary, secondary or tertiary prevention), Who (individual, at-risk group, population) and How (education, motivation, obligation, invention).

e. Critically analyze the topic and intervention. Indicate the advantages and disadvantages of each intervention that you selected and why they would be effective. Indicate methods that you would use to implement the intervention.

Mental Health

Introduction

According to the Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (DPHP) there are ten Leading Health Indicators that affect individuals in America. Of these ten, mental health immediately stood out amongst the others.

DPHP describes mental illness as one of the highest of all diseases, and mental disorders are among the most common causes of disability. In today's society, 26% of individuals 18 and over are living with mental health disorders in any year, and 46% will continue to display behaviors of mental health disorders throughout their lifetime (Healthy People 2020, 2018).

Mental health disorders have several determinants which contribute to being diagnosed by a primary care provider (PCP). These factors include race and ethnicity, gender, age, income level, education, sexual orientation, geographic location, interpersonal, family, community, housing quality and social support all play an inherent factor with mental health risk and outcomes (Healthy People 2020, 2018).

Mental health disorders include, but are not limited to; schizophrenia, delusional, bipolar, depressive, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are disorders which will prohibit individuals from entering the United States Armed Forces. However, the United States Government makes it feasible for individuals to join the Armed Forces and serve their country.

Thesis Statement

The proficient way to prevent individuals with mental health disorders from joining the military is conduct a more thorough investigation on the background of anyone who decides to join the Armed Forces. Accepting information supplied by the individual, police records and court documents from the state where joining is too lenient.