Mechanisms of Health and Disease Research Paper
By now your research on health Disparities should be helping you to uncover specific diseases that are linked to discrepancy in health care. If you have not already identified a specific disease linked to your goal question you will need to do so. Once you have identified this diseases or physiological conditions you will write a paper that discusses how he disease manifests including the physiological consequences and current treatments.
Research paper Format:
Minimum: 5 full pages of text, the title page and references cited pages do not count.
Double spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman or 11 pt. Arial
APA format The following web page can help you review guidelines for APA standards.
http://www.apastyle.org/
Basically, you will be required to include a title page and a reference list that include all
references cited within the text. You are not required to provide an abstract.
Start by familiarizing yourself with the normal mechanism before researching the
disease/disorder/condition. We may or may not have discussed the mechanisms in class,
so this will require research on your part. I suggest using the text book as a starting point.
For example if the disease topic you chose was Ischemia, then you would first need to
research the mechanism of normal blood flow and oxygen transport.
Next, begin your research on the disease/condition. Remember the focus of your paper
should be on physiological mechanisms, that is what goes wrong in the normal
physiology that causes the symptoms of the disease. Many of the diseases may also be
linked to a specific gene or set of genes. Think about how we have linked dysfunction at
the genetic and cellular level to dysfunction of tissues, organs and systems when
researching your disease.
It will also be helpful to think a about the normal mechanism when researching common
treatments. Explain why you think a particular treatment is helpful to patients suffering
the consequences of the disease/condition.
Finally, these diseases/conditions remain prevalent and in most cases are increasing in
frequency, discuss the pathology of the disease (ie. genetic, lifestyle, etc.) and what
current and future research is being done or needs to be to help decrease its either the
symptoms or prevalence of the disease.
References:
Minimum: 6 scholarly references (books, journals articles, websites etc.) Two references may
be internet sites if properly referenced, and you certainly may acquire any references via
electronic formats or databases ( You will Likely be able to use the References that you used for your Natural Next Questions and add a a few more).
Use this web page to help evaluate web pages as references:
http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/evaluating/
You may use the internet to guide you to references or give ideas for discussion, but do not copy
information verbatim. When searching for scientific journal review and primary research articles
the following sites are helpful:
Galileo Scholar : http://www.galileo.usg.edu/scholar/fvsu/search/
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
If the article is not provided for free you may request it through interlibrary loan:
http://library.fvsu.edu/ill
This is a free of charge service provided to you by FVSU. It requires that you set up an account.
Interlibrary loan requests should arrive in 24-48 hours if the request was made correctly.
Typically you will receive the article as a pdf that can be downloaded and printed.
TASK Deadlines:
April 3rd 11:59 pm: Annotated Bibliography (see separate assignment)
April 10th 11:59 pm Final Paper
You must turn in your final draft including your title page, and reference list. Your final
paper will be submitted through a assignment folder in desire 2 learn.
This folder will have Turnitin http://turnitin.com/ turned on to detect any plagiarism. If significant plagiarism is detected this will result in a grade of zero.
See the assignment for details. Be sure to follow the format described:
Minimum: 5 full pages of text, the title page and references cited pages do not count. Double spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman or 11 pt. Arial APA format The following web page can help you review guidelines for APA standards. In text Citations are Required. http://www.apastyle.org/
Minimum: 6 scholarly references (books, journals articles, websites etc.) Two references may be internet sites if properly referenced, and you certainly may acquire any references via electronic formats or databases.
This folder will have Turnitin http://turnitin.com/ turned on to detect any plagiarism. If significant plagiarism is detected this will result in a grade of zero.
