Understanding of current global health issues and the implications of the issues.
Purpose
Professional nurses in the 21st century should have an understanding of current global health issues and the implications of the issues.
Course Competency
Analyze the incidence, distribution, and control of emerging healthcare concerns in global populations.
Project Part 1
As your final course project, you will be preparing a poster presentation for an upcoming global health conference. Your poster will be about a disease affecting a global population. You plan to present the incidence and prevalence of the disease within the population, and discuss efforts to control, eliminate, and eradicate the disease. Before you can complete the poster, you need to do some research. For the first part of the project, you will choose a significant global health issue and complete a paper as per the instructions below. You may choose a specific disease, population, nation, etc. For example, you might choose Ebola in Africa, diabetes in American Indians, etc.
Instructions
Content:In essay format, do the following:
Explain the global health issue
Describe the population affected by the disease, including demographics
Present the incidence and prevalence of the disease within the population
Discuss the implications of the global health issue
Format
Your final essay should be 3-4 pages.
Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
Logical, original, and insightful
Professional organization, style, and mechanics in APA format
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