Welcome to the HU MPH Social and Behavioral Sciences WIKI

 

Your assignment for the semester is to create a highly professional, accurate, and useful WIKI that could be used to educate professionals and lay persons about how to address an important public health issue.

 

First, your group must select a public health issue that you will research and write about collaboratively throughout the  semester.

 

Throughout the semester, your group will do the following:

 

Research the PEER REVIEWED literature on the topic. 

 

Provide epidemiologic data on your topic from high quality sources

 

Discuss the role of public health professionals play in addressing the issue

 

Propose appropriate public-health activities that could improve problems related to the issue you selected

 

Appropriately incorporate concepts from theories discussed in the course into your plan

 

 

A list of learning objectives and public health competencies is provided for you on the Blackboard website.  

 

Each of the objectives and competencies must be addressed within your WIKI.  Use headings and subheadings as a way to identify each required section.

 

You may include weblinks, files, and other data you feel would be beneficial

 

Each student must identify him/herself on the WIKI site to get credit for the semester

 

 

Group grade  

The group grade for WIKI pages will be graded as follows:  

Informativeness(15%)

Usefulness (15%)

Adequacy of addressing learning objectives and public health competencies (25%)

Appropriateness of references and sources (15%)

Integration of behavioral science theory (15%)

Overall professionalism (15%)

 

Individual grade

Each student must develop a topical sub-section for the WIKI that provides an informative  discussion of a sub-topic relevant to the overall group topic. 

 

Individual WIKI grades will be be based on each student's individual topical WIKI section

using the same criteria for the group grade

Informativeness (20%)

Usefulness (20%)

Appropriate references (20%)

Integration of theory (20%)

Overall professionalism (20%) 

 

NOTE:  The sub-topic sections are intended to be informative to the general reader.  It is not necessary to address the specific learning objetives and competencies in this section. 

 

Individual grades will also be given for regular activity on the WIKI which

will be monitored by the History feature.  Participation grades will be as follows:

Excellent (95 - 100%)

Very good (90-94%)

Good (85-89%)

Fair (80-84%)

Poor (79% or below) 

 

Test link

http://hupublichealthwithdrcarla.pbwiki.com/LIFELINE-+Newborn+Screening+Tests%3A+Diabetes%2C+other+endocrine+and+metabolic+disorders