Description
For this assignment, you will assume the role of a public health leader. (Refer to the Vila Health: Public Health Roles and Essential Services challenge). Create an evidence table based on what you have gathered on your chosen emerging public health issue.
Overview
Using the evidence table document given in the resources for this assignment, you will complete your report on 10 different sources of evidence.
Directions
Step One: Introduction
Write an introduction to this assignment, assuming the role of the leader of a public health agency.
Discuss the importance of evidence-based practice to your emerging issues.
Add a short summary of what you have learned up to this point about your chosen emerging issue, and a short analysis of how the epidemiologist in your agency recommends how the investigation needs to move forward. (Refer to the discussion this week.)
Discuss any ethical considerations associated with the emerging issue.
Step Two: Evidence Table
Use the following criteria to provide an analysis of the evidence using the evidence table template given in the resources.
Is it recent? This is especially important if the evidence is data-driven.
Is it logical?
What is the experience of the authors or practitioners who created it?
Is there potential bias?
Is there any evidence challenging it?
How important is it?
Is it relevant to my investigation?
What is its significance?
Is this piece of evidence consistent with other evidence I have collected? If not, how is it different?
Submit your evidence table and the introduction as attachments to this assignment.
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Unit 3 Assignment
Evidence Table
This evidence table allows you to list the evidence gathered. The goal of using this table is to promote succinct and careful thinking
about research implications as applied, or synthesized to your emerging issue.
General
Information
Author, date,
country, target
group, and
generalizability.
Details
Interventions
Intervention
Outcomes
Ethical
Considerations
Results as applied
to Emerging Issue
Type of study
(quantitative,
qualitative, and
mixed methods),
number of
databases
searched, and
inclusion and
exclusion criteria.
Description of
interventions,
intervention
providers,
intervention settings,
and theoretical
frameworks.
Primary outcomes
and secondary
outcomes of the
interventions as
deemed significant
by measurement of
the outcomes.
Identify from the
evidence any
ethical
considerations
raised or implied
in the studies.
Main results of
review, and
comments and
limitations and
application to your
chosen emerging
issue.
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Unit 3 Assignment
Note: Table will expand and headings will repeat on subsequent pages.
Synthesis and Analysis of Evidence
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VilaHealth ™ Activity
Public Health Roles and
Essential Services
Introduction
Scenario 1
Conclusion
Credits
Introduction
Public Health Roles and
Essential Services
Hennepin County, Minnesota is the most populous county in the state,
with more than 1.2 million people living there. The county’s Public Health
Department is very active in its efforts to study and improve the health of
Hennepin County residents. In this activity, you’re going to meet five
professionals who epartment, and one parent advocate.
Let’s get started.
Professional Profiles
There are five profiles of several Hennepin County Public Health
professionals and one profile of a parent advocate in this activity. Choose
the correct character for the unit you are working on and familiarize
yourself with their perspective. Then discuss public health issues from the
perspective of that character in the unit’s discussion. The correct
character for each unit is listed in that unit’s study.
Grace Bowers
Director of Public Health
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My name is Grace, and I direct the Public Health Department in Vila
Health.
My job as director is to plan, staff, direct, and modify programs that affect
the community’s public health, as well as manage the affairs of the public
health department. Based on the work of my staff, I’m also involved in
policy-making, problem solving, and implementing new regulations nad
procedures to carry out effective public health policies.
One of my first jobs is to choose a leadership style that would inspire my
staff and develop trust and confidence from the community I serve. I look
forward to taking on emerging issues in Hennepin County.
For example, for months I have been hearing that many children in the
county are suffering from post-traumatic stress (PTSD). Some
professionals and parents are saying that this stress comes from
exposure to violence, abuse, neglect, bullying, and even improper
treatment in medical centers and our foster care programs. Others say
that these children are being mis-diagnosed with ADD or ADHD and then
given strong pyschotropic drugs. As a public health leader, I will be asking
my team to investigate this and report back to me.
Larissa Leighton
Public Health Epidemiologist
Hello, I’m Larissa Leighton and I’m a public health epidemiologist.
My primary job is to collect, analyze, and publish information about public
health issues in a way that community members and my fellow
professionals can understand. I like to see myself as a detective and
problem solver who takes clues and then tries to make sense of them.
I use a variety of prevention strategies, including active and passive
surveillance, existing databases, field investigations, community
education, and making sure public policies are followed. This means
collecting demographic data in the community, and trying to describe and
even anticipate trends that can affect the community’s health and wellbeing.
I have been asked by my director to examine what some are calling an
emerging issue in Hennepin County: post-traumatic stress in children.
This is currently not recognized as a major public health issue, and there
seem to be various opinions about what PTSD really means for young
people in our community.
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My job will be to examine data and other evidence and present a
summary of what I find to our public health team. Hopefully, I will also be
able to suggest an approach that can be used with any new and emerging
health issue.
Aaron Pool
Public Health Analyst
I’m Aaron Pool, a Public Health Analyst with Hennepin County.
I’ve been asked by my team to look into programs and policies that might
affect children suffering from PTSD. As a veteran, I’m very familiar with
PTSD. I know enough about it to be careful, because using the PTSD
label itself can be seen as a stereotype, and even discriminatory. I’m
going to look at what my colleagues have already done and try to build on
it.
I’ll need to be creative with this issue and think outside of the box. I think
I’ll start by seeing what I can learn from the best practices we use with
children suffering from traumatic stress. I want to be an advocate for
change, so that these children get the help they need, both now and in the
future.
If I’m successful, we could end up with a plan that suggests how we can
meet the needs of children suffering traumatic stress. I’ll also try to make
our plan a model that can be used with any emerging public health issue.
Kristin Holmes
Parent Advocate
I’m Kristin Holmes and I am trying to advocate for my son, who was
traumatized by my ex-husband.
Jonah has been in treatment since he was four. When he started going to
school, he was anxious and overactive in class. They are trying to get me
to allow a Ritalin prescription as part of an ADHD program they always
use with hyperactive children. And to top it off, he is being bullied, which
reminds him daily of the fear and anger he has to deal with.
I have been gathering evidence and talking to anyone who will listen
about traumatic stress in my son’s life. And it’s not just my son. I have
found that maybe millions of children across this country are also affected.
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Kids like Jonah need trauma-specific approaches that can provide
individualized and holistic services that promote wellness, durability, and
healing—not just a pill.
I have been talking to other advocates for different issues and they all say
that advocacy usually starts with one or two people who are experiencing
an issue. Then it grows, as people find they are not alone.
Thank God for the Internet.
Marcus Alvarado
Public Health Policy Specialist
Hello, I’m Marcus Alvarado, a Public Health Policy Specialist here at
Hennepin County. I have to try to make the hard decisions for our Public
Health team about the viability of policies affecting any public health issue.
For most of our current priorities, there are many standard databases and
journal articles to rely on. But when it comes to an emerging issue, the
challenges are greater. I can’t look at one or two sources for data and
information—I need to draw on information from various fields, which I
may not be completely familiar with. Although it can be challenging, this is
a part of the job I enjoy–making connections to things that on the surface
might seem unrelated. I will make sure to talk to some of my colleagues
from other fields who are in policy-making positions, and get their opinions
on PTSD and children.
I am going to take all the material our team has pulled together on PTSD
and children, and do the hard analysis of possible policies and regulations
that might help children affected by adverse childhood experiences. I plan
to analyze the following:
What are the costs?
Ethical considerations?
Prevention outcomes?
Evaluations?
There will probably be even more that emerge once I begin.
Roberto Reyes
Public Health Regulatory Affairs Manager
Hello, I am Roberto Reyes, a Public Health Regulatory Affairs Manager. I
oversee all regulatory and ethical concerns that arise in Hennepin
County’s Public Health department.
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I’ve been asked to review some policies and regulations that our Public
Health Analyst and Policy Specialist have put together. Fortunately,
because they used evidence-based practices, I won’t have to do a
comprehensive ethical review. The interventions they are recommending
have already undergone careful ethical and compliance reviews in the
locations where they are being used.
Part of my work is to ensure that all the policies we implement to meet the
urgent needs of these children meet all regulatory compliance standards.
This way, any successes we have in this emerging public health issue can
also be used with any public health issues that emerge in the future.
I’m usually the last step in the vetting process before our director makes a
decision on how to proceed. I truly hope she decides to make youth PTSD
a real priority in our community. All the evidence I see seems to support
prompt action—and I’m usually the skeptic!
Conclusion
Activity complete!
In this activity, you took on the perspective of another person in a public
health role. Adopting another’s perspective in analyzing an issue can help
you to respond more creatively and attain insights that you might not have
otherwise. This is a critical skill when responding to new and emerging
issues in public health.
Credits
Subject Matter Expert:
James Gambone
Interactive Design:
Alyssa Jensen
Interactive Developer:
Dre Allen
Instructional Design:
Patricia Danielson
Project Management:
Alan Campbell
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