Review the appropriate rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.
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Read Chapters 1 and 46 in the textbook, Public Health Nursing: Population-centered Health Care in the Community.
Prepare to discuss the following prompts:
Define population-focused healthcare and what that means to local populations, national populations, and global populations. Support your assertions with citations from your assigned readings.
Pick one of the Ten Great Public Health Achievements in the 20th century located on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website(new tab).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (1999). Ten great public health advancements – United States, 1900-1999(new tab). Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 48(12), 241-243.
Citation: (CDC, 1999, para. 6)
Explain why this is considered an achievement and what you see as the two pros and two cons of this achievement.
Based on the readings in your textbook, identify a population health problem in your community. Explain why this is a problem and what at-risk population is affected. Discuss how population health approaches can impact this problem.
Based on the readings in your textbook, discuss the differences between local, national, and global population-focused healthcare. Discuss:
At least one formal population health organization that affects local health systems.
At least one formal population health organization that affects national health.
At least one formal population health organization that affects global health.
Your initial post should include four paragraphs and two sources correctly cited and referenced, to support your information.
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