The goal of this course is to gain a thorough familiarity with your role as a health educator

The goal of this course is to gain a thorough familiarity with your role as a health educator. Draw from your knowledge and understanding of health promotion, health behavior theory or models and identify a need for health education, planning and implementing a health education program. It would be best if your selected program has ‘real world’ relevance and the need for its implementation is CURRENTLY urgent.

As evidence of progress on your final assignment submit a paper that contains the following:

•Identify and thoroughly explain how the proposed health education program will be carried out.

•Identify and provide rationale for any possible barriers or obstacles to implementation.

Demonstrate an ability to critique scholarly research by extensive use of pubmed/proquest.

Assignment Expectations

Please read before completing assignments.

•Assignment should be approximately 2-3 pages in length (double-spaced).

•Please use major sections corresponding to the major points of the assignment, and where appropriate use sub-sections (with headings).

•Remember to write in a Scientific manner (try to avoid using the first person except when describing a relevant personal experience).

•Quoted material should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is on independent thinking and critical analysis). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others.

•When material is copied verbatim from external sources, it MUST be properly cited. This means that material copied verbatim must be enclosed in quotes and the reference should be cited either within the text or with a footnote.

•Use of peer-reviewed articles is required. Websites as references should be minimal.