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Your Portfolio Project for this class is a community action plan designed to alleviate or correct a public health issue in your community. Your community can be your business, school, neighborhood, town or city of residence or birth, or county. Consider the philosophical and ethical foundations of public health presented in Chapter 3 of your textbook and how the issues in your community compare to the authors’ presentation of global public health issues all communities face.
For your discussion this week, tell us the public health issue and the community you are considering to use for your Portfolio Project.
- In your post, discuss your public health idea. Incorporate at least two references from a newspaper, trade magazine, website, or peer-reviewed journal that speak to the public health issue you have selected. One reference must address the specific public health problem in the community you have selected to examine. The second reference must offer up a potential solution to the type of public health issue you have identified (it does not need to refer to your specific issue in the community you are working on).
- Discuss any ethical, moral or political responsibility, as described in Chapter 3 of your text, that you feel your community has to address this issue.
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DEAR WRITER, I LIVE IN SAVANNAH, GA. PLEASE SELECT A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE IN SAVANNAH OR GEORGIA. ALSO, I HAVE ATTACHED A COPY OF THE FINAL PROJECT, ONLY, TO GIVE WAY TO WHAT I WIL BE REQUIRED TO DO AFTER CHOOSING A HEALTH ISSUE LATER ON IN THIS CLASS.
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Running head: PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE
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Public Health Issue
Student’s name
Institution
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PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE
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Public Health Issue in Georgia
As part of the larger United States, the state of Georgia continues to struggle with a
number of public health concerns affecting its residents. Of these issues, obesity remains a major
concern considering the effects the condition has not only to individuals but to the health care
systems at large. Like other states, Georgia has a considerably high rate of obesity which informs
the need for addressing with urgency. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) defines obesity
among adults as body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30.0, which is ca...