PUBHLTH University of California Irvine Pollution Public Health Problem Paper

Description

The goal of this short research paper is to show how you can discuss and evaluate a policy based on Public Health concepts that we engage with over the quarter.

You will organize the paper into sections with the following subtitles:

Public Health Problem

How to Solve the Problem

Challenges in the Future

Those sections need to include the following information.

Public Health Problem

In which you describe the problem and why it is a

public health

problem

Where, when, and how did this happen?

This will be different for each problem, as some are centuries old and some are specifically recent. Some are the result of recent human industry, and others are viral mutations. Explain accordingly.

What are the biological and/or psychological ways this harms human health?

When and why did this problem become an issue of concern for

public health

?

Be specific about when and where people focused on public health got involved.

How to Solve the Public Health Problem

In which you describe

public health

interventions or policies used to solve the problem.

Include two past attempts to solve the problem, explaining why they are not done anymore or done differently.

Include two recent methods, explaining why they are more effective (or less, as the case may be).

Challenges in the Future: What are the challenges of preventing the problem from recurring or getting worse?

In which you explain the key challenges in preventing the problem from reoccurring or getting worse

Provide two ways to prevent the recurrence or worsening of the problem, explaining the challenges to implementing these solutions.

Conclude by providing

your opinion

on how to meet these challenges and prevent this problem in the future, giving two examples.

THE SHORT RESEARCH PAPER
PUBHLTH 1: Principles of Public Health
Dr. Theodore K. Gideonse
Short Research Paper
• The goal: To show that you
to can describe, discuss, and
evaluate a public health
problem.
• The paper will be
organized into three
sections:
1.
2.
3.
The Public Health Problem
How to Solve the Problem
Challenges in the Future
• The Public Health
Problem:
• In which you describe the
problem and why it is a public
health problem
• Where, when, and how did this
happen?
• What are the biological and/or
psychological ways this harms
human health?
• When and why did this problem
become an issue of concern for
public health?
HIV jumped from
simians to humans
in the 1900s and
slowly spread
through central
Africa, then to Haiti…
But it did not
become a public
health issue until
the discovery of its
spread in the early
1980s.
Short Research Paper
• How to Solve the
Problem:
• Challenges in the Future:
• In which you explain the key
challenges in preventing the
• In which you describe of public
problem from reoccurring or
health interventions or policies
getting worse?
used to solve the problem.
• Provide two ways to prevent
• Include two past attempts to
the recurrence or worsening of
solve the problem, explaining
the problem, explaining the
why they are not done anymore
challenges to implementing
or done differently.
these solutions.
• Include two recent methods,
• Conclude by providing your
explaining why they are more
opinion on how to meet these
effective (or less, as the case
challenges and prevent of this
may be).
problem in the future, giving
HIV prevention used to be Now, HIV prevention also two examples.
focused on abstinence,
safe, and safer sex for
prevention.
relies on medications that
prevent HIV infection and
transmission.
We must ensure the
drugs are available and
affordable for everyone
in the world, not just
rich countries. But how
do we control the
prices?
Short Research Paper
• Topic
• Choose a pre-approved topic and
submit it by the deadline.
• If you want to choose your own, it
must be approved by a TA before
the topic submission deadline.
• Research and references:
• At least six references
• At least four must be scholarly
references
• All six must be cited in the paper
• Read “Writing and Research
Resources and Links.”
• Formatting
• Follow APA formatting and use a
standard font:
• https://owl.english.purdue.edu/o
wl/section/2/10/
• Cover page including a title that
references the topic, your name,
email address, class, term, and
word count
• At least 1250 and at most 1500
words
• Word count does not include the
cover and works cited pages
Short Research Paper
• Be clear what is an example
and what is your opinion.
• It is fine (and encouraged) to
start clearly, “I believe …” or “My
opinion is …”
• You must submit your paper
through Canvas and only
through Canvas.
• Quotations are not allowed.
• If you use a quotation, 10 points
will be deducted each time.
• You must paraphrase carefully
and correctly.
• Read “Plagiarism &
Paraphrasing” in the Short
Research Paper Module.
• Note: You will be able to submit
your paper for multiple
Turnitin checks prior to the
deadline.
Pre-approved Public Health “Problems”
• Opioid overdoses
• Binge drinking by college
students
• Teen-aged smokers
• Huffing
• MRSA (in hospitals)
• Rabies
• West Nile Virus
• Hepatitis C
• Salmonella
• Seasonal flu
• Car exhaust-related air
pollution
• Asbestos
• Ozone
• Lead (in the water)
• Electronic waste
• Forest fires
• Earthquakes
• Childhood obesity
• Food deserts
• High fructose corn syrup
Rubric
Required Elements
Points
Topic (submitted previously)
5
Cover Page
5
1250 -1500 words
15
Correct formatting
5
APA citation format and works
cited page
10
How to Solve the Problem
Points
Include two past attempts to solve the
problem, explaining why they are not done
anymore or done differently.
20
Include two recent methods, explaining
why they are more effective (or less, as the
case may be).
20
Turnitin Score
Challenges in the Future
Public Health Problem
Where, when, and how did this
happen?
15
What are the biological and/or
psychological ways this harms
human health?
10
When and why did this
problem become an issue of
concern for public health?
10
Provide two ways to prevent the
recurrence or worsening of the problem,
explaining the challenges to implementing
these solutions.
20
Conclude by providing your opinion on
how to meet these challenges and prevent
of this problem in the future, giving two
examples.
15
TOTAL
150
0-5% similarity score
Deduction
0
>5-10% similarity score
-10
>10-15% similarity score
-20
>15-20% similarity score
-30
>20-25% similarity score
-40
>25% similarity score
-150

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