PHHE 467 Deaths Caused by Alzheimer’s disease in DeKalb County
Question Description
Part II. Additional INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITIES. **********4-5 Pages*************
Assigned disease is deaths caused by Alzheimer’s disease in DeKalb County, Illinois. APA format with some sources
1. Statement of the Problem (or Objectiveof your Study).
Have you clearly stated what it is you want to study?
Why is the hypothesized situation important to DeKalb County?
If not now, could the problem be significant in the future due to possible changing demographics or other changes in the County’s health needs?
How does your proposed study contribute to the overall health status of your target population and the health status of DeKalb County now and in the future?
Other considerations/ items which must be included in this section of your paper:
Null Hypothesis (including independent and dependent variables). Use full wording.
Alternative Hypothesis (including independent and dependent variables; “if-then”) significant causation implied. What kind of causal relationship is it that you think is worthy of further funding and community intervention by the DeKalb County Health Department?
Additional concerns for you to include:
Are you proposing a Formative or Summative kind of evaluation and why?
Validity and Reliability of Study that you are doing, to confirm problem exists.
Purpose of proposed study: Exploratory, Explanatory, and/or Descriptive? Why?
2. Literature Review
Include in your discussion (short summary) the following:
At least 10 up-to-date resources (no older than 4 years old). Include:
Goodmanarticle: pick at least two of Goodman’s Principles and discuss their relevance to your study.
Joel Cowen’s Mental Health Study for DeKalb County.
Note: Goodman’s article and Cowen’s PowerPoint are of course older than 4 years. We are
using Goodman for evaluation theoryand Cowen for the formfor four kinds of assessment.
DeKalb County IPLAN; DeKalb County: what data were specifically relevant to your particular study, and why? (Make sure that you use the 2017-2022 MAPP version, NOT theold APEX-PH model version). Available under “Course Information”.
Summarize how each of the 10 resources is expected to contribute to the
quality (validity and reliability) of your study. Compare and contrast them; find similarities and support for your Hypothesis.
NO WIKIPEDIA citation as a direct source of information! Not necessarily a competent or reliable source of information! Minus 10 overall presentation points if used!
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3. Subjects for Study
The health statusas expressed in incidence or prevalence of your target population’s problemis ALWAYS your dependent variable. The health status of the target population is what you wish to eventually change to reflect progress toward a stated goal. The usual reason it has been chosen is that it is abnormally higher or lower than the incidence or prevalence of a problem on a statewide or national basis.
What is your independent variable? Why was it chosen (usually suggested by previous research/ findings)? What do you hypothesize is causing the rate of incidence or prevalence to be less or more than the desired status (use State of Illinois and Federal “benchmarks” as points of comparison and evaluation of the need for the intervention).
Why is this health status anomaly a true “problem”, not merely a “condition”?
Other considerations you will want to address in “Subjects for Study”:
Whom or what will you study in order to collect data?
In specific terms, who or what is available for study?
How will you reach them?
What kind of sample(s) are you going to have? How will you do that?
Do you know if the sample you intend to select will be representative of
your Target population? How and why do you know?
Is there any possibility that your study will affect those you study?
How will you ensure that your study doesn’t harm them?
How will our choice of a survey or field research methods influence subject selection
4. Measurement
What kind of research method (study design) do you propose to use and why? (best to have multiple indicators of a problem coming from different perspectives, as in Joel Cowen’s presentation). This is a short explanation of options and which would be best for your study.
Quantitative? Qualitative? Both? Why one or the other? Why both?
Field Research/ Community Assessment
Secondary source analysis?
Key Informant?
Focus Groups?
(See Joel Cowen’s presentationhis four ways of assessing health disparities within the Community). The best presentation will show how each of the four types of data
acquisition will be used in your type of evaluation. Actual survey or focus questions need to be submitted, shown in your Appendix. How are you going to measure what you propose to collect? What kind of format are you going to use so that your form of measurement and results are clea
