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QUESTION

For the final assignment for the Community Health Project, you will be creating a fact sheet based on your research from Human Health and Physiology and Identifying Risk Factors and Solutions.

The idea behind creating a fact sheet is to inform the general public about an issue. Specifically, your target audience will be the residents of the community that you identified as being particularly vulnerable to poor health outcomes. You should assume that your audience will have a limited scientific background. You will be writing from the perspective of your medical specialty (but do not write in 1st person – see the example on this page), but your goal is to make the science that you researched understandable to a general audience while including the sources from your background research.

Assignment Requirements

While your final fact sheet will contain graphics, this assignment is just asking you to submit the text and your graph. As you are writing each section of your fact sheet, please use the third person (do not use I/we) and think about considering how the elements fit together to create a fact sheet with good flow — it should proceed logically. Address each of the prompts below:

An introduction

In a brief paragraph, identify the health condition that you are focusing on and explain how the solution could improve health outcomes for your focal community (This information should come from Identifying Risk Factors and Solutions.).

How does this solution address the risk factor that you identified? How would this reduce the prevalence of the health condition?

An overview of the health condition

Summarize what residents in your focal community should know about the physiology of the health condition.

How does the risk factor increase someone’s chance of developing the health condition?

Focus on the risk factor that your solution targets.

Be specific and provide details about the physiological connection between the risk factor and the health condition.

What steps can residents take to reduce their risk of developing the health condition?

A bullet point list of key facts, including:
The statistics for the risk factors related to the health condition, as relevant to your focal community. (Refer back to Identifying Risk Factors and Solutions if necessary.)

The % of adults in your focal community that exhibits the health condition.

A bar graph

Create a bar graph comparing the prevalence of the health condition in your focal community to three other communities. (Use the data provided in Human Health and Physiology.)
Be sure to properly label the x- and y-axes!

A community solution

Restate the solution and how it relates to the health condition.
Briefly discuss the organization, program, or movement you selected as part of Identifying Risk Factors and Solutions. How does it relate to the solution and how could it improve health outcomes for residents? I would suggest going back and reviewing the Social Determinants of Health lesson to help you in writing this section.
Los Angeles Play Streets Program
Mobile Recreation Program

City Plants

Los Angeles Neighborhood Land TrustLinks to an external site.

Gangsta Gardening and Hyperlocal Food Production

How could residents support this organization, program, or movement?

References cited
Remember to cite all information sources fully, including in-text citations and a properly formatted reference list at the end, for full credit. Please make sure that your sources are credible and that you properly cite all sources.

You can use any citation style you would like (MLA, APA, etc.). Here is PCC’s guide to APA style.

Required – Incorporating Feedback

What instructor feedback have you received on previous parts of the project, if any?

How have you addressed or incorporated this feedback? Be specific and explain how you can use this feedback to improve your final fact sheet.

Example Fact Sheet
Remember, for this assignment, you are just submitting the text and graph. No graphics are necessary! This example fact sheet is just to provide an example of how the information fits together.

Here is the pdf version of the example fact sheet
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if you would like to see anything in more detail. You can also view the text as a Canvas page.

Peer Review

Upon completion of this assignment, you will be assigned two peer reviews to complete. This is an opportunity for you to see what others have been working on and for everyone to receive constructive feedback on their fact sheet before submitting the final version next week. Please review the assignment directions and the rubric first and then give written comments to your peers. Choose at least two of the prompts below to formulate your comments for each of your peers.

What are two things you think they communicated in their fact sheet really well?

What is one place they used a source or the data in their fact sheet that worked really well?

What is one place they might be able to strengthen their fact sheet by making better or different use of a source or the data?

Make one or two general suggestions for how they could strengthen their fact sheet. This could be to add material, reorganize a paragraph or sentence, clarify language, or make any other changes to increase clarity.

Suggest corrections to any grammatical issues in the text or formatting issues with the graph.

Helpful Resources

How do I upload a file as an assignment submission in Canvas?

How do I know if a source is credible?