Social determinants of health could be interrelated and could be the reason for unhealthy or risky health behaviors and attributes that lead to negative outcomes. Public health officials must constantly look for ways in which they can eliminate some of these problems in society.

For the Unit VII Case Study, you will take on the role of a public health leader in your community and develop a plan for other officials that addresses the following.

1) Describe a social determinant of health in your community that has produced health risks and outcomes. 

2) Based on your research, what do you see as the biggest issue facing your community? 

3) Describe how the community is presently tackling the problem through the local public health department. 

4) Propose a resolution for the health risk and outcome caused by the social determinants. 

5) Explain how these unhealthy behaviors and attributes could be reduced or eradicated in the society. 

6) How would you reduce medical costs in your community? 

7) Explain how the government can implement your plan into law for the common good. 

Your case study must be a minimum of three pages in length, excluding the title and reference pages. To support your ideas, use a minimum of three outside sources. Additionally, use a source that focuses on your community, such as a newspaper or journal article. Remember that all written assignments must be formatted using APA style, including in-text citations and references.

1. Use the Internet to complete the following: (150 words)

• Zero to Three. (n.d.). Brain development.Links to an external site. https://www.zerotothree.org/early-development/brain-development

Reflect on the information from the Zero to Three website and previous information shared in this course, list three new things you have learned about baby brain development, and explain how this will influence your social work practice.

2. (150 words) Explain gender development, including environmental effects on the process and the role of culture in gender identity. Support your explanation with your course texts.

****Use Applied Human Behavior in the Social Environment to read the following:

• Chapter 10, “Gender and Sexuality’s Influence on Human Behavior,” pages 188–219.

Use your The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog text to read the following:

• Chapter 11, “Healing Communities,” pages 215–228.

Epidemiology is driven by data and usually relies on the collection of information and the analysis and interpretation of that information. Researchers in epidemiology are interested in the constant measurement or assessment of the relationship between exposure and disease/outcome. The study designs can be classified as observational or experimental depending on the approach used to assess the association between exposure and outcome. 

For the Unit III Case Study, research and describe one experimental study design and one observational study design and provide at least one example of how each design can be used in a research intervention. 

Explain how one of these studies can be applied to one of the health problems you identified in your community. Provide a statistical table of the health problem you identified in your community (prevalence, incidence, mortality rates, and morbidity rates). This information is usually found in the local departments of health websites. Explain whether the health problem in your community is an endemic, epidemic, or pandemic. 

Your case study must be a minimum of three pages in length, excluding the title and reference pages. To support your ideas, use a minimum of three outside sources; one may be the textbook. Additionally, use a source that focuses on your community, such as a newspaper or journal article.

                                                               Course Textbook: 

Schneider, M.-J. (2017). Introduction to public health (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781284118797

In a paper of 1,250 explain:

The overall role of health care financing, focusing on the strategy of cost containment and how the delivery of health care has been impacted through the trend shift of fragmented care to managed care.

The trend of value-based care for reimbursement.

Two other current methods of reimbursement and the trends seen within them.

Provide a minimum of three scholarly sources.

 

OB-related business articles published in either 2021, 2022, or 2023 in one of the following outlets; BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, or MIT Sloan Management Review. Points will be deducted if you do not select an article that meets the specifications listed in the previous sentence.

Your summary must address all of the following prompts:

• What was the purpose of the article?
• How does the article relate to 3 topics covered in our course?
• What are the practical/applied implications of this article for managers or the organization?