Consider how you could develop an advocacy campaign, applying the attributes identified in similar, effective campaigns

The purpose of this assignment is to
• Provide learners with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills learned throughout this course
• Directly apply principles and knowledge learned in the course to problem solving of population health problems in their own geographic areas.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
1. Define key terms in epidemiology, community health, and population-based research.
2. Compare study designs used for obtaining population health information from surveillance, observation, community, and control trial based research.
3. Identify appropriate outcome measures and study designs applicable to epidemiological subfields such as infectious disease, chronic disease, environmental exposures, reproductive health, and genetics.
4. Apply commonly used measures of health risk.
5. Examine current ethical/legal issues in epidemiology.
6. Identify important sources of epidemiological data.
7. Evaluate a public health problem in terms of magnitude, person, time, and place.

To prepare: Select a population health issue of interest to you and identify the population affected by the issue. Locate two scholarly articles, each of which provides a description of an effective health advocacy campaign that addresses your issue. The articles need to focus on two different advocacy campaigns. Analyze the attributes of the two campaigns to determine what made them effective. Reflect on a policy you could propose or suggest a change to a current policy to improve the health of the population you selected. Consider how you could develop an advocacy campaign, applying the attributes identified in similar, effective campaigns. To complete: For the Part 1 application (approximately 3–4 pages of content with a title page and references in APA format) address the following: Describe your selected population health issue and the population affected by this issue. Summarize the two advocacy campaigns you researched in this area. Explain the attributes that made those campaigns effective. Begin to develop a plan for a health advocacy campaign that seeks to create a new policy or change an existing policy with regard to the issue and population you selected. Be sure to include in your plan: A description of the public health issue and proposed policy solution Specific objectives for the policy you want to be implemented Begin to substantiate of your proposed campaign by data and evidence.