IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING WORD LIMIT REQUIREMENTS:

Please note that each and every assignment has its own word limit.

An article critique involves the identification, evaluation, critique, and response to an author’s study, both positive and negative. An article critique is an active process that involves careful consideration of the article’s content, rather than providing a simple summary. Critiquing research allows you to develop an understanding of the current state of knowledge, which is essential to the development of an understanding of the “big picture” of a discipline as a whole.

Research a health promotion/behavior change intervention for a population in one of the following: school, community, worksite, or health setting. Select a peer-reviewed journal article related to the health promotion/behavior change intervention you chose. The article must have been published within the last 2 years. Articles from news outlets, magazines, or blogs are not appropriate for this assignment. Critique the article by responding to the questions in the “Article Critique Worksheet.” Use complete sentences for questions 2-10. Your response to each question should be three or four sentences long.

APA style is required for the body of this assignment, as well as solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, in the link below.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

PLEASE make sure APA citation and permalink for the articles are complete and correct.

PLEASE add the links/sites below to the reference list if you use any of these readings and make sure everything is in proper APA format.

https://apastyle.apa.org/learn/quick-guide-on-refe…

Read “Health and Social Conditions of the Poorest Versus Wealthiest Counties in the United States,” by Egen, Beatty, Blackley, Brown, and Wykoff, from American Journal of Public Health (2017).

URL:

https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=120045923&site=eds-live&scope=site

Read “Caring About the Social Determinants of Health,” by Sheehan and Sheehan, from American Journal of Bioethics (2015).

URL:

https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=103777436&site=eds-live&scope=site

Read “Priorities for Action on the Social Determinants of Health: Empirical Evidence on the Strongest Associations With Life Expectancy in 54 Low-Income Countries, 1990-2012,” by Hauck, Martin, and Smith, from Social Science and Medicine (2016).

URL:

http://www.sciencedirect.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S0277953616304713?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb&ccp=y

Read “Screening for Social Determinants of Health among Children and Families Living in Poverty: A Guide for Clinicians,” by Chung et al., from Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care (2016).

URL:

http://www.sciencedirect.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S1538544216000341?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb

Read “Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities,” located on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.

URL:

https://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/strategies2016/index.html

Read “Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health” (2008), located on the World Health Organization (WHO) website.

URL:

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/69832/1/WHO_IER_CSDH_08.1_eng.pdf

Read “Determinants of Health,” located on the Healthy People website.

URL:

https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/Determinants-of-Health

Read “Improving Population Health: Policy. Practice. Research,” located on the Improving Population Health: Policy website.

URL:

http://www.improvingpopulationhealth.org/blog/what-is-population-health.html

Read “HHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Nation Free of Disparities in Health and Health Care,” located on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Minority Health website.

URL:

https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/npa/files/Plans/HHS/HHS_Plan_complete.pdf

Explore the Health Equity page of the American Public Health Association (APHA) website.

URL:

https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/health-equity

MUST be 650-900 words and have at least 4 citations with the page numbers and 4 references in APA format.(The List of References should not be older than 2016 and should not be included in the word count.)

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources.

It is important that you cover all the topics identified in the assignment. Covering the topic does not mean mentioning the topic BUT presenting an explanation from the context of ethics and the readings for this class

To get maximum points you need to follow the requirements listed for this assignments 1) look at the word/page limits 2) review and follow APA rules 3) create subheadings to identify the key sections you are presenting and 4) Free from typographical and sentence construction errors.

REMEMBER IN APA FORMAT JOURNAL TITLES AND VOLUME NUMBERS ARE ITALICIZED.