How is your community doing compared with other communities?

How is your community doing compared with other communities?

Prevalence and incidence rates for diseases or health conditions allow us to make comparisons between communities. Rates of activities such as smoking and physical activity allow us to make comparisons between communities regarding other areas of health promotion.

Write a 3-5 page paper in APA format on the Learning Activity question #3 on page 65 of your text. In your paper, answer only question #3:

How is your community doing compared with other communities?

Address this question in a 3-5 page paper in APA format:

?• Consider a community of which you are a member (e.g. your state, your county, your age group, or your school).
?• Choose a health promotion topic that is of particular importance to your community of interest such as sexual health, obesity, communicable disease, or physical activity.
?• How does your community compare with a similar community in a different area of the state or the country?
?• How does your community compare with a similar community in another part of the world? Include at least two scholarly references besides your text to support your work.

Examines a specific population for the essay.

Justifies selection of a health promotion topic.

Compares and contrasts the chosen population with a different population in the state or county.

Compares and contrasts the chosen population with a different population in the world.