Question

Implementing a Public Health Program Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research about the ten leading causes of death in the United States. List all the diseases and select one disease. Research further on your selected disease. Based on research, create a 5- to 7-page Microsoft Word document that includes:

use diabetes

A proposal for a public health program to address that disease within your community.

An outline of the steps you will undertake to evaluate the program you have proposed.

An evaluation design for your program.

An identification and collection of data to evaluate your program.

An explanation of the method determined for collecting the data.

Conclusions from the data and justification of those conclusions.

Recommendations for improvements to your program and a plan to communicate those recommendations.

Answer 1

Ten leading causes of death in united states are;

Heart disease

Cancer

Chronic lower respiratory disease.

Accidents.

Alzheimer's disease.

Diabetes.

Influenza and Pneumonia

Kidney diseases.

Stroke

Suicide.

Diabetes:

Number of death per year; 79.535.

Type I diabetes is more commonly diagnosed in people with a family history of the disease, or a specific Gene that increase the risk, children between the age of 4 and 7.

Type II diabetes is more common among in people who are overweight or obese, aged with family history of diabetes.

Prevention:

Physical exercise, healthy diet, maintainance of healthy weight.

Before planning the evaluation, you should be familiar with stratergies or interventions proven to increase physical activity at the population level.

Steps in an evaluation:

1. Engaging stakeholders- arrange places where u carried out the program. Select partnes. Describe the needs and steps.

2. Describing the program.

3. Focusing the evaluation design - as health educator, you want to be sure that the evaluation is useful not only to your health department but also to the parter organisation s that help to implement the program.

4. Gathering credible evidence - collect quantitative and qualitative data from people, documents, observations, and from existing information.

5. Justifying conclusions - this includes analyze data, interpret the result and make judgement about the program.

6. Ensuring use and sharing lessons learned. - the findings can be printed in the local newspaper to create awareness.