Description
Draft the prevention analysis, Section II, for your final project. Research your issue to determine potential prevention and mitigation options appropriate for your individual and the age-specific population. This will afford you the opportunity to practice evaluating the health issue you have chosen and to receive feedback on your analysis. You can then incorporate that feedback into the final version of your project, which is due in Module Seven. Be sure to review the Milestone Two document before you begin.
Submit your assignment here. Make sure you’ve included all the required elements by reviewing the guidelines and rubric.
SCENARIO BEING RESEARCHED AND UTILIZIED Scenario Three: Obesity in an Adolescent
Michelle is 15 years old and has always been the “big” girl in class. She is much taller than her fellow classmates and is also bigger in size. According to
her doctor, she is in the morbidly obese category based on the body mass index (BMI) chart. Michelle gets her exercise from gym class, which she has
every Wednesday afternoon. She does not eat breakfast but does eat the school lunches. When she gets home, she tends to fix a bowl of cereal to hold
her over until dinner.
This individual belongs to an age-specific population that is affected by this health issue. You will write a health analysis paper in which you analyze both
the individual and the age-specific population affected by the health issue for symptoms, causes, and data to inform potential prevention options. For
example, if your profile describes a middle-aged individual dealing with high blood pressure, your analysis paper will consider both that specific
individual and the entire population of middle-aged adults dealing with high blood pressure.
You will then develop a presentation directed at a particular audience that could enact some of these prevention options in the hopes of helping both
the individual from the profile and the age-specific population in dealing with this health issue. For example, if your individual and population are
middle-aged adults dealing with high blood pressure, you would cater your presentation to an audience that could help address the issue and potentially
enact some of the prevention options you have recommended
Overview
For the final project in this course, you will analyze a health issue from the perspective of an individual patient dealing with the health issue and the age-specific population that individual belongs to. Your analysis will include potential prevention options that might help the individual and the population prevent or mitigate the health issue. Finally, you will take this information and develop a short presentation directed to an audience that might be able to help prevent or mitigate the health issue.
Prompt
In Module Five, you will work on the prevention section of your final project (Section II). As you are evaluating prevention strategies for your scenario, you must consider the individual as well as the larger age-specific population that you identified in Milestone One. Before you begin, be sure to review the rubric below to understand what is expected of you.
Address the following questions:
What are the best practices of the field regarding prevention options for the age-specific population for this health issue?
What are potential prevention options that could be recommended for the population? The individual? Explain why you chose these methods, and support your answers with research.
How does the age of the individual or population influence the modes of prevention that you can recommend?
