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Public Service Health

This is a two-part assignment. Part 1 is a narrative report and Part 2 is a public service health announcement. You will identify and explain the effect of the water supply on the development of cholera in developing countries.

Part 1: Report

In a report of 750-1,000-words, address the following:

  1. The agent responsible for cholera.
  2. The symptoms, treatment, and diagnosis of cholera.
  3. Relationship between the water supply and cholera.
  4. Public health efforts to reduce cholera illness in developing countries.

Utilize a minimum of three references to support your claims.

Prepare this part of the assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Part 2: Public Service Health Announcement

Develop a public service health announcement. The PSHA should:

  1. Have a clear message.
  2. Be targeted toward a specific audience.
  3. Be persuasive in nature.
  4. Grab the viewer’s attention.
  5. Be brief.
  6. Support statements with evidence.
  7. Contain photos and text (voice and music are optional).
  8. Observe all copyright laws.

You may use iMovie, iPhoto, Photostory for Windows, Windows MovieMaker, Adobe Premiere Elements, or Web 2.0 tools such as JayCut or Animoto.

Post the PSHA to TeacherTube or SchoolTube. If you do not have an account, create one and post the PSHA.

APA format is not required for the PSA, but solid academic writing is expected.

Public Service Health

This is a two-part assignment. Part 1 is a narrative report and Part 2 is a public service health announcement. You will identify and explain the effect of the water supply on the development of cholera in developing countries.

Part 1: Report

In a report of 750-1,000-words, address the following:

  1. The agent responsible for cholera.
  2. The symptoms, treatment, and diagnosis of cholera.
  3. Relationship between the water supply and cholera.
  4. Public health efforts to reduce cholera illness in developing countries.

Utilize a minimum of three references to support your claims.

Prepare this part of the assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Part 2: Public Service Health Announcement

Develop a public service health announcement. The PSHA should:

  1. Have a clear message.
  2. Be targeted toward a specific audience.
  3. Be persuasive in nature.
  4. Grab the viewer’s attention.
  5. Be brief.
  6. Support statements with evidence.
  7. Contain photos and text (voice and music are optional).
  8. Observe all copyright laws.

You may use iMovie, iPhoto, Photostory for Windows, Windows MovieMaker, Adobe Premiere Elements, or Web 2.0 tools such as JayCut or Animoto.

Post the PSHA to TeacherTube or SchoolTube. If you do not have an account, create one and post the PSHA.

APA format is not required for the PSA, but solid academic writing is expected.

Approaches To Environmental Issues

  • Review Chapter 11 in the course text International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance. Pay attention specifically to the approaches IGOs and NGOs use to address environmental issues.
  • Review Chapter 10 in the course text Controversies in Globalization: Contending Approaches to International Relations.Consider how governments around the world are approaching environmental issues such as climate change.
  • Search the Internet for international organizations (IGOs and NGOs) that address environmental issues of interest to you.
  • Select one international organization (e.g., World Wildlife Federation, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, or Rainforest Alliance) to use for this discussion.
  • Think about approaches that the selected international organization uses to address environmental issues.
  • Select one approach and consider strengths and limitations of the approach.
  • Think about an alternative approach you might take to address the environmental issue.

The Assignment 1.5 pages must include:

1.A brief description of the international organization and the approach you selected

2. Explain one strength and one limitation of using the selected approach to address an environmental issue of interest to you.

3. Explain a different approach you might take to address the environmental issue. Be specific and use examples to illustrate your points.

Approaches To Environmental Issues

  • Review Chapter 11 in the course text International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance. Pay attention specifically to the approaches IGOs and NGOs use to address environmental issues.
  • Review Chapter 10 in the course text Controversies in Globalization: Contending Approaches to International Relations.Consider how governments around the world are approaching environmental issues such as climate change.
  • Search the Internet for international organizations (IGOs and NGOs) that address environmental issues of interest to you.
  • Select one international organization (e.g., World Wildlife Federation, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, or Rainforest Alliance) to use for this discussion.
  • Think about approaches that the selected international organization uses to address environmental issues.
  • Select one approach and consider strengths and limitations of the approach.
  • Think about an alternative approach you might take to address the environmental issue.

The Assignment 1.5 pages must include:

1.A brief description of the international organization and the approach you selected

2. Explain one strength and one limitation of using the selected approach to address an environmental issue of interest to you.

3. Explain a different approach you might take to address the environmental issue. Be specific and use examples to illustrate your points.

Temperature Inversion Assignment

For Module 3, you will complete a 5 – 8-pages paper addressing the following topic:

Temperature Inversion — In the winter months in a small town located in a valley, a temperature inversion has occurred. An inversion is a change the normal atmosphere where a layer of cool air at the surface is overlain by a layer of warmer air, therefore limiting the ability for air at the bottom to escape. An inversion can lead to pollution and contaminates being trapped close to the ground, with possible adverse effects on health.

To Prepare: Review the Learning Resources and the above scenario. Think about your role as current or future environmental health/ public health professional and how you might address the scenario. Also, think about the responsibilities and services you may be called upon to carry out for the community.

You must: Include an APA style title page / include APA style headings for each section of your paper / cite the sources within your text in APA style / and include an      APA formatted reference list at the end of your paper.

Instructions for students

For this assignment, you will prepare a paper on the environmental health functions and public health responsibilities related to an air quality control and protection scenario provided by your professor.

Review the Learning Resources provided in this module, your textbook, the CDC website, and any other quality public health or academic resources, and think about how the core functions of environmental health are related air quality control and protection. Visit the Walden writing center and review your Essential Guide to APA style for writing assistance.

Your paper must include the following:

· A title page, in APA format.

· Section headers, in APA format, for each section below:

· Describe the air quality incident and highlight the unique attributes of this situation and why it is a public health concern. Explain the situational background and why a public health response would be warranted.

· Describe the potential human health effects of this incident, taking into account the unique environmental health factors that influence exposure. What       challenges/barriers can you expect to face given this information?

· Analyze the core public health roles and responsibilities in responding to the event and how local, state and federal public health agencies may work together in controlling the air quality incident. Also, what other resources and/or partnerships may be needed to respond to this incident?

· Describe the specific public health and community protection procedures that you feel will best protect the community and why? Make sure to discuss at minimum, incident investigation, exposure assessment, hazard containment, and public information dissemination.

· Provide a summary/conclusion adequately closing the paper and finalizing your thoughts.

· Cite the sources within your text and be sure to follow APA format.

· An APA formatted reference list at the end of your paper

Temperature Inversion Assignment

For Module 3, you will complete a 5 – 8-pages paper addressing the following topic:

Temperature Inversion — In the winter months in a small town located in a valley, a temperature inversion has occurred. An inversion is a change the normal atmosphere where a layer of cool air at the surface is overlain by a layer of warmer air, therefore limiting the ability for air at the bottom to escape. An inversion can lead to pollution and contaminates being trapped close to the ground, with possible adverse effects on health.

To Prepare: Review the Learning Resources and the above scenario. Think about your role as current or future environmental health/ public health professional and how you might address the scenario. Also, think about the responsibilities and services you may be called upon to carry out for the community.

You must: Include an APA style title page / include APA style headings for each section of your paper / cite the sources within your text in APA style / and include an      APA formatted reference list at the end of your paper.

Instructions for students

For this assignment, you will prepare a paper on the environmental health functions and public health responsibilities related to an air quality control and protection scenario provided by your professor.

Review the Learning Resources provided in this module, your textbook, the CDC website, and any other quality public health or academic resources, and think about how the core functions of environmental health are related air quality control and protection. Visit the Walden writing center and review your Essential Guide to APA style for writing assistance.

Your paper must include the following:

· A title page, in APA format.

· Section headers, in APA format, for each section below:

· Describe the air quality incident and highlight the unique attributes of this situation and why it is a public health concern. Explain the situational background and why a public health response would be warranted.

· Describe the potential human health effects of this incident, taking into account the unique environmental health factors that influence exposure. What       challenges/barriers can you expect to face given this information?

· Analyze the core public health roles and responsibilities in responding to the event and how local, state and federal public health agencies may work together in controlling the air quality incident. Also, what other resources and/or partnerships may be needed to respond to this incident?

· Describe the specific public health and community protection procedures that you feel will best protect the community and why? Make sure to discuss at minimum, incident investigation, exposure assessment, hazard containment, and public information dissemination.

· Provide a summary/conclusion adequately closing the paper and finalizing your thoughts.

· Cite the sources within your text and be sure to follow APA format.

· An APA formatted reference list at the end of your paper

Human Impacts on the Sustainability of Groundwater

Instructions: You will need to write a 1-page lab report using the scientific method to answer the following question:

·  If current human development does not change, will groundwater sustainability be affected?

When your lab report is complete – submit it in the classroom.

Part I: Using the time progression of industrialization and human development, fill in the data table below to help you write up your lab report.

Part II: Write a 1-page lab report using the following scientific method sections:

  • Purpose
    • State the purpose of the lab.
  • Introduction
    • This is an investigation of what is currently known about the question being asked. Use background information from credible references to write a short summary about concepts in the lab. List and cite references in APA style.
  • Hypothesis/Predicted Outcome
    • A hypothesisis an educated guess. Based on what you have learned and written about in the Introduction, state what you expect to be the results of the lab procedures.
  • Methods
    • Summarize the procedures that you used in the lab. The Methods section should also state clearly how data (numbers) were collected during the lab; this will be reported in the Results/Outcome section.
  • Results/Outcome
    • Provide here any results or data that were generated while doing the lab procedure.
  • Discussion/Analysis
    • In this section, state clearly whether you obtained the expected results.  Also discuss the results and what you learned from this lab.
    • Note: You can use the lab data to help you discuss the results and what you learned.

Provide references in APA format. This includes a reference list and in-text citations for references used in the Introduction section.

Give your paper a title and identify each section as specified above. Although the hypothesis will be a 1-sentence answer, the other sections will need to be paragraphs to adequately explain your experiment.

Human Impacts on the Sustainability of Groundwater

Instructions: You will need to write a 1-page lab report using the scientific method to answer the following question:

·  If current human development does not change, will groundwater sustainability be affected?

When your lab report is complete – submit it in the classroom.

Part I: Using the time progression of industrialization and human development, fill in the data table below to help you write up your lab report.

Part II: Write a 1-page lab report using the following scientific method sections:

  • Purpose
    • State the purpose of the lab.
  • Introduction
    • This is an investigation of what is currently known about the question being asked. Use background information from credible references to write a short summary about concepts in the lab. List and cite references in APA style.
  • Hypothesis/Predicted Outcome
    • A hypothesisis an educated guess. Based on what you have learned and written about in the Introduction, state what you expect to be the results of the lab procedures.
  • Methods
    • Summarize the procedures that you used in the lab. The Methods section should also state clearly how data (numbers) were collected during the lab; this will be reported in the Results/Outcome section.
  • Results/Outcome
    • Provide here any results or data that were generated while doing the lab procedure.
  • Discussion/Analysis
    • In this section, state clearly whether you obtained the expected results.  Also discuss the results and what you learned from this lab.
    • Note: You can use the lab data to help you discuss the results and what you learned.

Provide references in APA format. This includes a reference list and in-text citations for references used in the Introduction section.

Give your paper a title and identify each section as specified above. Although the hypothesis will be a 1-sentence answer, the other sections will need to be paragraphs to adequately explain your experiment.

Ecological Footprints

PART A

Use the footprint tool from the web page What is Your Ecological Footprint? to calculate your ecological footprint.  At every opportunity, please select the “add details to imporve activity, make a note of how many earths would be required if everyone lived like you.  Then click on “see details” to obtain the following information:

Your ecological footprint, in global hectares (a hectare is about two and half acres).

Your top three consumption categories.

Finally research some ways you might reduce your footprint, identifying a few specific ones that you might put into practice throughout the course.

Part B Household Carbon Emissions Footprint

Next use the Carbon Footprint Calculator to calculate your household carbon emissions footprints.  After answering all the questions

Make a note of your carbon emissions footprint in pounds.  Is that above or below the average household carbon footprint in the US?

Also explore specific actions you might take to reduce your footprint.  Which of them might be practical to undertake in the next five weeks?

Part C  Water Footprint Calculator to calculate you daily water footprint.  After answering all the questions:

Make a note of your gallons per day water footprint

Record the top three contributors to it

Scroll down the page to access a series of Tips buttons you can click on for advice on reducing your footprint.  Again make not of some specific ideas you see that might be practical to implement.

Your discussion should include all the information you gathered about your consumption habits from your three footprint calculations by answering the following questions

What did you learn that surprised you about your consumption habits?

Propose a minimum of five lifestyle changes you could make that would reduce one or more of the three footprints.  These do not have to be the ones you use in this course-long project. over the course of the discussion you may opt to select other ones based upon classmates’ recommendations.  You will be recording your final choices for lifestyle changes in your journal at the end of the week.

For each lifestyle change, identify which footprint you would be lowering by doing it.  Discuss potential obstacles to making those changes, and then suggest ways you might overcome those obstacles.

Ecological Footprints

PART A

Use the footprint tool from the web page What is Your Ecological Footprint? to calculate your ecological footprint.  At every opportunity, please select the “add details to imporve activity, make a note of how many earths would be required if everyone lived like you.  Then click on “see details” to obtain the following information:

Your ecological footprint, in global hectares (a hectare is about two and half acres).

Your top three consumption categories.

Finally research some ways you might reduce your footprint, identifying a few specific ones that you might put into practice throughout the course.

Part B Household Carbon Emissions Footprint

Next use the Carbon Footprint Calculator to calculate your household carbon emissions footprints.  After answering all the questions

Make a note of your carbon emissions footprint in pounds.  Is that above or below the average household carbon footprint in the US?

Also explore specific actions you might take to reduce your footprint.  Which of them might be practical to undertake in the next five weeks?

Part C  Water Footprint Calculator to calculate you daily water footprint.  After answering all the questions:

Make a note of your gallons per day water footprint

Record the top three contributors to it

Scroll down the page to access a series of Tips buttons you can click on for advice on reducing your footprint.  Again make not of some specific ideas you see that might be practical to implement.

Your discussion should include all the information you gathered about your consumption habits from your three footprint calculations by answering the following questions

What did you learn that surprised you about your consumption habits?

Propose a minimum of five lifestyle changes you could make that would reduce one or more of the three footprints.  These do not have to be the ones you use in this course-long project. over the course of the discussion you may opt to select other ones based upon classmates’ recommendations.  You will be recording your final choices for lifestyle changes in your journal at the end of the week.

For each lifestyle change, identify which footprint you would be lowering by doing it.  Discuss potential obstacles to making those changes, and then suggest ways you might overcome those obstacles.