health organization

Assignment
You are the top policy executive of a community health organization seeking to create a health policy to deal with a specific critical health issue in your community. Pick a major health issue to research and propose policies to be implemented on the health issue in your organization. The entire effort culminates in a DB presentation and a written paper with a comprehensive policy brief.  The project should specifically focus on the social, legal, and political contexts in which health care organization exists and adapts, with emphasis on the U.S. system.  One goal of this class is to help students understand how communities and providers can participate in developing and implementing policies on institutional, local, state, and federal levels.
The project focuses on different factors in the spectrum of disease prevention, i.e., influencing government policy and legislation, changing your organizations practices, fostering coalitions and networks with other organizations, educating providers as well as promoting community and individual education and strengthening individual knowledge and skills. Each student will present a brief discussion in the DB for the class discussion on the elements selected for their health issue. Each DB presentation will include an overview of the health issue in their population, include relevant data, culminating in development of a working policy to guide the organization. Students will provide feedback to their classmates on their project.
Each student will also prepare a written synopsis of their project. All citations must be in APA format for the presentation, policy and individual paper. For full credit the individual student synopsis must be complete within the outline below, 12 TMS Font with 1 inch margins. References are included on a separate page.