HLTH 630
Article Review Assignment Instructions
Overview
Article reviews provide the opportunity to read and disseminate research in a specific field. As a public health professional, you must be able stay abreast of current research trends and be able to integrate their information into your research, policies, and programs. Properly analyzing a research paper with a certain aim in mind should be in all public health professional’s skillset.
Instructions
Article Review: Health Disparities Assignment
Find an article highlighting health disparity in the United States from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, or another peer-reviewed source. You will read the article, evaluate research methods, briefly summarize its contents, and compare the findings to the assigned readings from Healthy People 2030 and other literature on health disparities.
Article Review: Mobilization of Community Members Assignment
Find an article concerning mobilization of community members to address health related concerns within a community from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, or another peer-reviewed source. You will read the article, evaluate community mobilization methodologies, briefly summarize its contents, and compare the findings to the assigned readings from Healthy People and other literature dealing with recruitment of volunteers and/or mobilization of resources to manage community health problems.
Article Review: Needs Assessment Assignment
Find an article dealing with the development and/or performance of a needs assessment. Thismay be an article about a community health assessment or about assessing the special needs of a population afflicted with a particular ailment. The article must come from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, or another peer-reviewed source. You will read the article, evaluate needs assessment methodologies, briefly summarize its contents, and compare the findings to the assigned readings from Healthy People and other literature dealing with needs assessment methodologies.
Article Review: Implementation of a New Health Initiative Assignment
Find an article describing the implementation of a new health initiative within a community from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, or another peer-reviewed source. You will read the article, evaluate program implementation methodologies, briefly summarize its contents, and discuss where the initiative fits into the Healthy People objectives.
Assignment Structure
Title Page
The primary goal of a title should be to summarize the main idea(s) of your paper simply and clearly. The title should be positioned in the upper half of the page and centered. Do not bold, underline, or italicize the title.
Article Abstract
You will write your own abstract for the article, using the author's abstract as a model. You are to write an original abstract (short article summary) of no more than 100 words.Include your first name, middle initial(s), and last name. Omit all titles (e.g. Dr., Professor) and degrees (e.g. MA, PhD, EdD), if applicable. Center and double space your name and the name of your college, university, or institution. The abstract should be on the title page.
The abstract should include the following sections: The study objective, background or context of the research; the main ideas explored and/or the study design and method; and the principal conclusions and/or the results of the study.
Keywords: List 3-10 key words at the end of your abstract.
Include the following headings in your article review section:
Introduction
In this section, discuss the following: Statement of the Problem; Purpose of the Study; Research Questions or Hypotheses and Limitations (if any).
Methodology
This section will include Methods; Participants; Data Collection Procedures and Data Analysis Procedures. You will also discuss the quality of the 'literature review' your author completed before they wrote the article. In some cases, you will find a section that discusses the literature reviewed for the study. In other articles, the information isdispersed throughout the article. Discuss the following in this section: Was literature review present? Was it useful? Rigorous? What did you learn? Were there surprises?
Results
Report the results of the study as clearly as possible. If your article reported a quantitative study, report the results in numbers with a good level of detail. If this was a qualitative study, also report the outcomes of the study, being specific about emerging themes, topics, etc.
Conclusions and Recommendations
Did the researcher come to any conclusions or make recommendations? Sometimes this section is given a heading that says: Implications. This is the “so what” section of the research study. What does it mean to practice? Expected length of article review up to this part: 2-3 pages. In your review, describe how your selected article addresses each of the sections listed above.
Discussion
Begin this section on a new page, following your conclusions/recommendations.Expected length of your discussion is 1-2 pages. In this section, evaluate research methods in the article, discuss the research project, including your opinion of its rigor, usefulness, validity, reliability, soundness, design, and applicability to community health.
References
Please provide at least 1 more reference in addition to the article reviewed. Organize the references numerically in AMA format. The reference page should begin on a new page and the word ‘References’ should appear bold and left-hand justified on the top of the page. References should be numbered consecutively in the order they were cited in text.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
