STD’s in African American Teenage Girls

Requirements

1. Identify a health problem or need for health promotion for a particular stage in the life span of a population
   from a specific culture in your area (this might include age and gender population as well). Choose one of the
   Leading Health Indicators (LHI) priorities from Healthy People 2020. Students in a cultural
   concentration will use that specific cultural focus to complete this assignment.
2. You will develop an educational health promotion project addressing the population/culture in your area. For
   or example, if you are in the Hispanic concentration, your project might be educational interventions to
   address how food choices are related to the high rates of diabetes among Latinos; or, a community project
   that addresses the statistic that Hispanics experience new HIV infections at more than twice the rate of whites;
   or, finding opportunities to intervene with Puerto Ricans, a Hispanic subculture, who suffer asthma at twice
   the rate of the general population.

Style and Format of Essay

Write a 3‐4 page paper (excluding the title and reference pages) using the following guidelines:

– Write brief introduction of the topic and describe why it is important to health promotion in the specific cultural population in your area

-Include a description of the topic and the targeted sub culture or population (include statistics). Explain how the project relates to the Healthy People 2020 topic area you have chosen.

-Summarize the articles; include key points or findings from the articles
-Discuss how you used the information from the articles for your Health Promotion Project. Provide specific examples.
-Describe the approach/approaches you developed to educate the target population about the topic. Include specific ways to promote lifestyle changes within the specified population relative to your specific culture. The approach should be appropriate for your cultural concentration.
-Write your conclusion and summary.

****Below I have included the articles and the Essay Rubric if more requirements is needed****

***Link to Healthy People 2020***https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectiv…