CAPSTONE PRESENTATION
Capstone Project HLTH/PUBH 4900 B.S. in Public Health
Title of Project
Name; Date; Term
Learning Outcomes 1 and 2
Explain how your chosen health topic impacts public health and public health systems both locally and globally.
Why is your topic a public health issue?
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcomes 5 and 6
Provide statistics as well as other epidemiological data that describe the impact of your health issue among various populations.
Which groups are most impacted?
You must include current and up-to-date data on your health issue and make sure that all data and research are properly cited within your PowerPoint slides.
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcomes 5 and 6 continued
Provide statistics as well as other epidemiological data that describe the impact of your health issue among various populations.
Which groups are most impacted?
You must include current and up-to-date data on your health issue and make sure that all data and research are properly cited within your PowerPoint slides.
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcome 7
Use current, credible, and scholarly literature to identify social, cultural, behavioral, and environmental factors that influence your selected health issue.
Then, describe how these various factors impact your health issue. You must provide support and cite the literature.
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcome 7 continued
Use current, credible, and scholarly literature to identify social, cultural, behavioral, and environmental factors that influence your selected health issue.
Then, describe how these various factors impact your health issue. You must provide support and cite the literature.
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcome 7 continued
Use current, credible, and scholarly literature to identify social, cultural, behavioral, and environmental factors that influence your selected health issue.
Then, describe how these various factors impact your health issue. You must provide support and cite the literature.
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcome 3
Use current, credible, and scholarly literature to identify political, economic, and environmental factors that influence your health topic.
Then, describe how these various factors impact your health issue. You must provide support and cite the literature.
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcome 3 continued
Use current, credible, and scholarly literature to identify political, economic, and environmental factors that influence your health topic.
Then, describe how these various factors impact your health issue. You must provide support and cite the literature.
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcome 4
Use current, credible, and scholarly literature to identify and describe the biological effects your health issue has on the human body.
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcome 8
Describe 2–3 existing public health prevention programs or services related to your health issue.
Have these programs or services been evaluated? How so?
Are they effective or ineffective?
Justify your response with support from current scholarly literature.
Note: If you cannot find any evidence of existing programs or services related to your topic in the scholarly literature, propose a health program that could be developed to address this health issue. Provide a title, a possible mission statement, and 2–3 program goals. Describe 2–3 “essential ingredients” for developing an effective, evidence-based public health program that addresses your selected health issue.
Learning Outcome 8 continued
Describe 2–3 existing public health prevention programs or services related to your health issue.
Have these programs or services been evaluated? How so?
Are they effective or ineffective?
Justify your response with support from current scholarly literature.
Note: If you cannot find any evidence of existing programs or services related to your topic in the scholarly literature, propose a health program that could be developed to address this health issue. Provide a title, a possible mission statement, and 2–3 program goals. Describe 2–3 “essential ingredients” for developing an effective, evidence-based public health program that addresses your selected health issue.
Learning Outcome 9
Describe 2–3 legal and ethical issues related to your selected health topic and how these issues impact public health practice.
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcome 10
How do public health policy and health advocacy impact your selected health topic?
Describe past, present, and/or future policies and/or advocacy campaigns associated with your health issue, and explain which individuals or groups may have been (or will be) most influential in advocating for, developing, or implementing these policy and/or advocacy efforts.
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcome 11 and Walden’s Mission
How can you, as a scholar-practitioner, play a role in addressing this health issue?
What types of communication and problem-solving skills do you need to influence social change as it pertains to your health issue?
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
Learning Outcome 11 and Walden’s Mission Continued
How can you, as a scholar-practitioner, play a role in addressing this health issue?
What types of communication and problem-solving skills do you need to influence social change as it pertains to your health issue?
Support your statements with scholarly sources and proper citations.
References
Make sure all of your references follow APA formatting.
You may use additional slides for references as needed.