Health Disparity Assignment

The health disparities assignment is a semester long project that you will complete throughout the semester. Your job is to go to google scholar and look up health disparities. You can also research health disparities on the library website, or go to the CDC website and look through health disparities there. Review the topics, and pick one for your semester assignment. You could also find a health disparity somewhere else – just run it by me before finalizing your topic. The topic proposal/annotative bibliography will be a 2 page document. The first pages is a double spaced paper explaining the topic you chose and why. The second page is an annotative bibliography with three citations of journal articles you’ve read on your topic and a paragraph overview of what you found interesting/useful from those articles. (5% of your grade).

The next part of the assignment is a 5-6 page literature review of your topic. In this 5-6 page paper, you will review at least 5 scholarly articles on your topic. A literature review should be organized by main ideas. That means – you DO NOT want to simply list 5 articles and write about them individually. Rather, it is your job to read the articles, and write a 5-6 page paper that synthesizes the main ideas/take away points from your topic. (20% of your grade).For the final part of the assignment you will revise your literature reviews and create a training/education program that is meant to target a crucial population that can help change this problem (people in positions of power). Your project can help raise awareness about your topic and/or promote action to mitigate harmful behaviors that promote health disparities. You can’t solve an entire issue in a training. However, your work should be focused based in the knowledge you gain from your literature reviews. For example, if you find that African American men are less likely to receive fair health care, you could create a training targeted at physicians to help reduce physician bias towards black men. If you inadvertently blame the afflicted population you are going to have fundamental issues with the assignment.

The final part of the project also involves a 3-4 page paper. In this last section you will explain in the first paragraph WHO THE TARGET AUDIENCE IS AND WHY THEY ARE APPROPRIATE FOR THIS. The remaining space is dedicated to linking your training/education program to research. In other words, you need to make an argument that your training/education program is appropriate and could be effective. How does your training/education program help people? What will it do? What action (if any) does it promote and why is that a good idea? Your argument will be based on the information you learned when researching your topic. (20%)