Required
Caron, R.M. (2017). Population Health: Principles and Applications for Management Health Administration.
Chapter 1: Public Health: Organization and Function
Chapter 2: Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
Chapter 4: Public Health and Healthcare Data
Cupp, C. A. L. (2020). Population-Based Nursing: Concepts and Competencies for Advanced Practice, 3rd ed.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Population-Based Nursing
Chapter 2: Identifying Outcomes in Population-Based Nursing
Please post individually your responses to the 3 bullets below on the designated discussion board, based on your experiences and the readings. Your (individual) posting should include appropriate citations and references by APA format. Please read your peers’ postings and discuss them in a scholarly manner.
1. Discuss your understanding of public health.
2. Using your own words, give a definition of epidemiology.
3. Describe one public health challenge facing us today.
Provide your rationale, propose, and an intervention to mitigate the threat? Use scholarly references to expand on this question.
Provide substantive feedback to TWO of your peers’ postings.
Be sure to read the ‘Grading Rubric for Discussion Postings’ to help familiarize yourself with expectations and criteria for the grading of Discussion postings. Your grades will be posted in Gradebook. Be sure to look closely each week at any deficiencies so that you can see how to improve your posting scores from week to week.