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Significant Contributions to Public Health - Part II
This is a continuation of your final project, which you started in Week 3. This last piece involves an analysis of how your individual’s contribution from the past continues to contribute to today’s public health system and how it might guide future work within the industry. As you recall, in week 3, you researched an individual and their contribution to community and public health. To begin, you need to review the feedback given to you from Week 3. Then, make the necessary revisions to Part I of this project. Then, you will be adding the second half to your project.
Follow this outline to help formulate your paper or presentation:
ACTION: Make sure you review all the feedback from your Week 3 (Part I) assignment and apply any necessary revisions. Your week 3 assignment should have included each of the following elements:
- GRADED ELEMENT : Describe your selected person’s experience
- GRADED ELEMENT : Analyze the climate of the time period in terms of political, socioeconomic, environmental and technological context in which this person worked.
- GRADED ELEMENT : Examine the personal beliefs of your person that prompted this work.
- GRADED ELEMENT : Examine how this individual overcame any adversities to succeed in his/her task.
- GRADED ELEMENT : Describe the final outcome of this individual’s contribution to community and/or public health.
- GRADED ELEMENT : Explain what his/her contribution did for overall community and/or public health at the time.
- GRADED ELEMENT : Explain why this contribution was so important at that particular point in history.
ACTION: Think about the individual’s contribution to community/public health
- GRADED ELEMENT : Analyze the impact of your individual’s contribution on today’s public health system.
- HELP: You are asking “what happened as a result of this contribution at the national and community level?” For example, some elements you could address include:
- did it change attitudes
- did it change protocols and policies
- did behavior change result
- did it add/eliminate laws
- HELP: You are asking “what happened as a result of this contribution at the national and community level?” For example, some elements you could address include:
- GRADED ELEMENT : Analyze how this contribution is still relevant today
- HELP: Was this contribution only applicable at the time it occurred, or is it still applied today? Why or why not? Explain your response
- GRADED ELEMENT : Examine how this contribution could support or be expanded for future community and public health benefits
- HELP: Using solid critical thinking, look at the historical value of the contribution and examine how it could be used for the future (is it applicable to another health issue, can it lead to more policy change, could it promote advocacy work or public health laws, etc.)
You have a choice of which format you wish to present your findings:
Format 1: Written Paper
- Must be at least 6 pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must include a separate title page with the following:
- Title of paper
- Students name
- Course name and number
- Instructor’s name
- Date submitted
- Must use at least eight scholarly sources (one of those may be the course text).
- Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
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Running Head: MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH CONTRIBUTIONS II
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Margaret Sanger was an early feminist, a dedicated nurse and the women’s rights activist
(Sanger, 2016). She was the person behind the successful current day family planning. She was
responsible for coining the term birth control and worked an extra mile towards its legalization.
Margaret Sanger was born on September 14 of the year 1879, in Corning New York. After
moving to Greenwich, she started a publication that promoted the women’s right to birth control.
The obscenity laws forced her to flee her country until 1915 (Archer, 2015). During her
exile time, she got to consult more on family issues especially the social factors such as poverty
that contributed to the aggravated numbers of uncontrolled births. She also used to smuggle
diaphragms to her country as a way to keep her campaign running. In the year 1916, Margaret
Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and dedicated all her life to
fighting for the women’s right. Sanger died in the year 1966 having accomplished her mission of
women accessing contraceptive information as well as care.
During Sanger’s times, women were not allowed to access the contraceptive information
and no legal abortions were allowed (Endres, 2014). So many women lost their lives out of
induced abortion as it is evidenced by the case where Sanger attended to a woman twice in her
apartment but unfortunately she died during her second visit. At the time the laws were tough in
that even the doctors would not provide the contraceptive information to the patients even if they
asked for it regardless of the age.
At the time poverty levels were among the biggest contributor to the increased birthrates
as a majority of the parents had no jobs and spent most of their time in their homes. When
Sanger was growing up, the political heat was rampant as activists went on demos to agitate for
their rights, it is through these that Sanger learned how to push for her grievances peacefully
(Bourbonnais, 2016). The technology used at the time of Sanger was very crude, as it is evident
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through the use of diaphragms as a method of birth control while the other major one was
abstinence.
Margaret Sanger believed that it is the right of every individual to have access to
contraceptive care regardless of gender and age. Sanger got much pained especially when she
saw innocent ...
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