HEAL8150 - Individual Assignment Instructions

Students will be given time to work on their assignment during class to identify research articles. And Additional time will be required outside of class to complete the assignment.

Select a policy issue by choosing one of the ideas listed below or propose a topic to your Professor by the required due date finalized by your professor. Select 2 articles to use for background research and literature review. One article to be a best practice document or government report, and other article would be from professional journals. Seek approval for articles other than best practice, government report or journal articles. News articles and web page blogs are not appropriate for the assignment.

Summarize the purpose of your policy issue in one or two one or two sentences.

Discuss the background to your issue. Ensure that this discussion is based on research and properly cited. Discuss the current situation of your policy issue ensuring that this section is based on research and properly cited. Use the examples discussed in class as a guide for the development of the briefing note. Using the research, you conducted to write out some recommendations relevant to your topic and summarize them. These would be properly cited. Identify next steps and submit the completed policy brief that will include purpose, background, current situation, recommendations, and next steps.

Report Format: Date Purpose Background/ Literature review Current Situation Recommendations Next Steps References - APA format

Use 12-point Arial font and double space the document, minimum 3 pages-maximum 4 pages Use APA formatting.