Public health

For this assignement, please include the following.

1. Health Problem and Setting- Describe the health problem using data and also describe in a few sentences the setting that you have chosen (Recall my example of HPV vaccine among college age students on the Ole Miss campus). I would describe the Ole Miss Campus (# of students, public health program, student health services (where vaccines are administered). Desribe using data, HPV vaccine rates among the college population. Use exisiting data (secondary data). You can include in this section any data that you think needs to be collected as well: example “A survey will be administered to find out the knowledge of students at Ole Miss around Vaccine hesitancy”. However, if you use this, know that you will need to make up data since we do not have time in this class to collect it. If this is confusing, don’t worry – it will not be at the end. 

2. Answer the qualitfy of life questions. Why is combating this health problem important. An example for HPV would be “because we can prevent cancer!!”

3. Who are potential stakeholders? HPV Example: Public health faculty and students, American Cancer Society, UM American Cancer Society (we have a chapter on campus), William Magee Center UM Health Center, Soroties/fraternties who may have interest in cancer prevention, local cancer survivors…

4. Campus Assets/Strengths/ Resources: HPV Example: Students have the ability to recieve vaccinations on campus at the health center. We have a CDC grant to focus on HPV vaccine on college campuses. Through this grant, we can hire a graduate assistant to work on this project. We also have two faculty members who conduct research on HPV, and we have a strong relationship with Willam Magee Center.