Group Assignment (due by 1700 September 13)
Instructions:
This is the first of your group assignments. If you have not already done so, please share additional contact information such as phone numbers with the other members of your group. That way you can call each other if you need to. Your group discussion should be conducted in your group's section on the discussion board.
Individual portion: If you are not a facilitator for this assignment, you will complete the exercise individually before sharing it with your group. After you have completed your individual assignment, share it by posting it in the group discussion area designated for your group on the discussion board. All individual portions of the assignment must be posted by three days prior to the due date for the group assignment. Your unit 2 group summary assignment is due by 1700 on 9/13/06. This means you will need to have your individual responses posted on the discussion board by 1200 on 9/10/06.
IMPORTANT: Individual work posted after the individual response deadline will not be incorporated into the group assignment summary, therefore, the individual student will receive a zero for that group assignment. At the discretion of the faculty, individual work posted after the individual response due date but before the group summary assignment deadline may be considered for partial credit not to exceed half of the assignment points.
Facilitator portion: Your group facilitator for this assignment will be responsible for summarizing your groups' individual contributions and posting a summary on the discussion board in the area designated for your group. The facilitator is not required to post an individual response, although it is encouraged in order to assure thoughtful and participatory interaction with the group. The facilitator may pose questions for clarification to individual members, so it is very important that all group members remain active participants in your group's sections on the discussion board until the group summary is completed and posted. The group summary is what will be graded. Please indicate group contributors and non-contributors on your submitted group summary work.
EXERCISE 1: Reflect on the Dimensions Model of Health, the Ecology of Human Performance Model, and the definition of population-focused health care when completing this exercise. Compare two groups: 1) African American women (over 50), college graduates, professional employment, earning greater than $50,000/yr. with 2) Caucasian men (over 50), combination of high school and non-high school grads, working in the following occupations: brick layer, facility operations, truck driver, meat packers, earning less than $30,000 per year.
Comparing both groups, give examples of potential protective and risk factors for the development of cardiovascular disease in each dimension. Give examples of interactions between dimensions that potentially could influence health. Provide examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention interventions that would be appropriate for both groups. How does knowing potential risk & protective factors for a population, influence the care you would provide to an individual? Compare and contrast the strengths and limitations of the dimensions model with those of the EHP model in understanding a population's health and daily living issues.
EXERCISE 2: Develop a web of causation for teen pregnancy that includes factors in a logical sequence and describes how they interact.
Using the dimensions model as a guideline, list factors from each dimension that would be part of your web of causation. Identify potential primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions for this problem. After implementing the primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions that you identified for this group, how could you use the epidemiological process to evaluate the success or failure of your interventions? Differentiate between descriptive and experimental evaluations. Be sure to give an example of each.