Health Promotion Project
REQUIREMENTS
1.Identify a health problem or need for health promotion for a particular stage in the lifespan of a population from a specific culture in your area(this might include age and gender population as well). Choose one of the Leading
Health Indicators (LHI) priorities from Healthy
People 2020 (see the Healthy People.gov 2020
Leading Health Indicators website
2.Research a topic related to health and wellness associated
with one of the Healthy People 2020 topic areas. Students in a cultural concentration will use that specific cultural
focus to complete this assignment.
3.You will develop an educational health promotion project addressing the population/culture in your area.
4. General expectations All articles must be from nursing or scholarly journals and should include health promotion and wellness content Articles must be published within the last five(5)years.
5. PREPARINGTHEASSIGNMENT 1.Writing the Paper: You will explore the topic and explain the information in writing a 3‐4 page APA formatted paper.
6. Select a minimum of three(3)scholarly nursing or research article(published within the last 5years)related to your topic that include
health promotion and wellness
content.
Students in a cultural concentration will select at least one article specifically related to the cultural focus for this assignment.You may need to evaluate several article sbefore you find appropriate selections.
Write a 3‐4 page paper(excluding the title and reference pages)using the following guidelines:
Write a brief introduction of the topic and describe why it is important to health promotion in the specific cultural population in your area.
Include a description of the topic and the targeted subculture or population(include statistics).
Explain how the project relates to the Healthy People 2020 topic are a you have chosen.
Summarize the articles;include key points or findings from the articles.
Discuss how you used the information from the article sfor your Health Promotion Project. Provide specific examples.
Describe the approach/approaches you developed to educate the target population about the topic. Include specifi c ways to promote lifestyle changes within thes pecified population relative to your specific culture. The approachs hould be appropriate fo ryour cultural concentration. Write your conclusion and summary.
