Assignment: Essay on the Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Health Disparities:
Directions: Identify a particular health disparity that affects a unique and specific population (name the population and the disparity). Explain how each of the socio-economic, behavioral, biologic, and environmental factors contribute to the disparity.
Criteria: 8 pages, double-spaced, 12pt, Arial font
Rubric:
Identification of health disparity and population: The text portrays a very thorough and correct understanding of a particular health disparity and the population that is uniquely impacted.
Identification and explanation of socioeconomic impacts on disparities: The text creatively and thoroughly describes how the socioeconomic impacts contributed to the particular disparity chosen.
Identification and explanation of behavioral factors and impacts on health disparities: The text creatively and thoroughly describes how behavioral factors contributed to the particular disparity chosen.
Identification and explanation of biological factors and impacts on health disparities: The text creatively and thoroughly describes how biological factors contributed to the particular disparity chosen.
Identification and explanation of environmental factors and impacts on health disparities: The text creatively and thoroughly describes how environmental factors contributed to the particular disparity chosen.
Support of Course Readings: The paper contains a wealth of relevant references to course readings that are appropriately used throughout the paper.
Flow/Organization/Grammar: The text flowed extremely well from beginning to end with few grammatical errors.
Utilize the Directions/Notes Document, uploaded with this order, as well as the 5 given articles to write the paper (the 5th article, the Beck article, was unable to be loaded due to file size limitation during upload of files, but it can be found on the internet easily and free-information of the article is located in the Directions/Notes Document). Please use in-text citations when using information from the articles. If other sources are necessary to complete the order, please use in-text citation also, as well as citation in the References section.