In Chapter 2 of your text, Global Public Health, the authors have a goal of helping public health professionals understand how an array of disciplines in biological and social sciences contributes to public health policies, programs and approaches to building health and well-being in communities and the population as a whole.Along with this, the success of a community action plan (which is the subject of your final Portfolio Project for this course) hinges not only on strong leadership but also on an interdisciplinary approach to community involvement.Watch either the video below or peruse the website, http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org Identify at least four strategies that you might use to increase and maintain community involvement in solving a public health issue in your own community. (Think back to the issue you mentioned in the Getting Started Introduction assignment.)State the public health issue and the four strategies you would use.Tips: In choosing your strategies, youll want to consider factors including the composition of your community, the amount of time that would need to be invested in order to implement strategies, and the resources and skills that might already be present in your community. Think about how you would go about recruiting people to support your action plan or how you would obtain needed resources to solve your issue.

Please select a disease pathology that we have covered in the first seven weeks, and write about it.Be sure to select a topic that you have not discussed previously in the forum this semester.A discussion of the disease, sign and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis is required.Graphics and illustrations are highly recommended.