Leadership and Strategy Plan

Final Project Proposal

This week, you submit your first
assignment related to your Final Project, which is a proposal for a leadership
and strategy plan for solving a pressing public health problem.

For this week’s Assignment, review the
Learning Resources.

 Submit
a proposal in the form of a 2- to 3-page paper explaining the community health
problem that will be featured in the Final Project. The paper will include the
following:

• A description
  of the public health leadership problem and why it is a problem.
• An
  identification of how the problem relates to the Healthy People 2020
  priority areas.
• A list of
  potential resources for data (at least 10–12 resources).

Readings

• Shi, L., & Johnson, J. A. (2014). Novick and Morrow’s public health administration: Principles
  for population-based management  (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA:
  Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• Chapter 6,
  “Professionalism and Ethics in Public Health Practice and Management”
  (pp. 119–136)
• Jennings, B., Kahn, J., Mastroianni, A., & Parker,
  L. S. (Eds.). (2003). Ethics and public health: Model
  curriculum. Retrieved from Association of Schools of Public
  Health website: http://www.aspph.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/EthicsCurriculum.pdf
• Module 4,
  “Community-Based Practice and Research: Collaboration and Sharing Power”
• Module 5, “Ethics and
  Infectious Disease Control: STDs, HIV, TB”
• Module 6, “Ethics of
  Health Promotion and Disease Prevention”
• Module 7, “Ethical
  Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health”
• Module 8, “Public Health
  Genetics: Screening Programs and Individual Testing/Counseling”
• Module 9, “Public
  Health and Health System Reform: Access, Priority Setting, and Allocation
  of Resources”
• Public Health Leadership Society. (2002). Principles of
  the ethical practice of public health. Retrieved from http://www.apha.org/~/media/files/pdf/about/ethics_brochure.ashx
• Thomas, J. (2004). Skills for the ethical practice of
  public health. Retrieved from the Public Health Leadership Society
  website: http://phls.org/CMSuploads/Skills-for-the-Ethical-Practice-of-Public-Health-68547.pdf

Optional Resources

• Public Health Ethics (PHE). (n.d.). Retrieved October
  6, 2014, from http://phe.oxfordjournals.org/