Imagine you are a biostatistician working at a local health organization. Part of your job is to analyze trends and draw conclusions about health issues that affect
your organization. Your supervisor has asked you to do a quick literature search for published research on an upcoming topic as preparation for a new project.
The goal is to understand the current biostatistical methods and guidelines being used on similar studies so that you could eventually use that to inform the
design of the new study.
Your job is to find a minimum of two research articles on your topic from the Final Project Part I Articles List document, examine the broad health question(s)
addressed in each, and critically assess the statistical methods used to analyze the data and arrive at the articles’ conclusions. You will present the results of this
analysis to your supervisor and peers in an article review.
Specifically, your article review must address the following critical elements:
I. Background: Use this section to provide a brief context for the health problem, issue, or trend you are researching. Specifically, you should answer:
A. What topic or health question did you research and why is it relevant to public health, nursing, or the health science professions? Give realworld
examples to support your answer.
B. How can biostatistics help inform decision making around your topic? Support your answer with specific examples.
II. Article Selection: In this section, discuss how and why you selected your main article and the related article. Be sure to:
A. Explain why you selected these specific articles to examine over others in your field that use biostatistical methods and data. Justify your
answer.
B. Assess each article’s importance to health decision making in your field. Give real-world examples to illustrate your answer.
III. Findings: This section should highlight the major findings of each of the articles you selected for your supervisor and peers. Specifically:
A. What are the findings of each article and what implications do they have individually and collectively for solving the health problem in
question? Support your answer with specific examples from your field.
B. Explain how key biostatistical calculations and methods support the conclusions in each article. Cite relevant information from the articles
that support your answer.
IV. Methods: Use this section to compare and contrast the methods used in the articles you selected with an eye to assessing the quality and limitations
of the findings and informing future research. Specifically, you should:
A. Explain why the authors of each article selected the methods they did. How appropriate were the methods to the overall purpose of the
paper? Justify your response.
B. Analyze a difference and similarity in the methods chosen with respect to the health question being addressed in the selected articles.
Explain your answer using evidence from the articles selected and information you have learned in the course.
C. Assess a strength and limitation of the different approaches used in the articles you selected. Explain your answer using evidence from the
articles you selected and information you have learned in the course.

Articles I choose for assignment

Option 2
Grunfeld, E., Coyle, D., Whelan, T., Clinch, J., Reyno, L., Earle, C. C., & . . . Glossop, R. (2004). Family
caregiver burden: Results of a longitudinal study of breast cancer patients and their principal
caregivers. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 170(12), 1795–1801.

Reblin, M., Donaldson, G., Ellington, L., Mooney, K., Caserta, M., & Lund, D. (2016). Spouse cancer
caregivers’ burden and distress at entry to home hospice: The role of relationship quality.
Journal Of Social And Personal Relationships, 33(5), 666-686.

How did Thomas Jefferson envision the American Republic? In what ways did Hamilton oppose this vision? Who eventually succeeded and how?

you will write your own opinion in Lon Fuller’s Case of the Speluncean Explorers, which is said to be the greatest fictitious legal case of all time. You will have considerable leeway in deciding whether to side with one of the five judges assigned to hear a case (six, if we take into account the “Contemporary Proceedings,” see below) or, alternatively, write your own legal opinion. The point is to attempt to convince your reader to accept your position by presenting the best reasons you can muster.

The Session Long Project entails going through the process of influencing policymakers. In prior SLP assignments you wrote a letter to “raise a concern” and “oppose a position” or “support a position.” While these are direct ways of influencing policymakers by letter writing, there are additional indirect ways that can also achieve your objectives. Some ways are writing a letter to the editor or “Op-Eds.”

Make sure to review the Oklahoma Rehabilitation Council “Writing Op-Eds and letters to the editor” page to help you complete this assignment.

Part 1:

Choose any topic that is related to the category stated in SLP 1.
Pick a local newspaper to write to (you can use your hometown paper if you desire). Provide the name of the newspaper and the city.
Write a one-page letter to the editor.
Part 2:

Write one page of text on tips for writing a letter to the editor.
What are some advantages of writing a letter to the editor compared to the letters from prior SLP assignments?
Recap: Your assignment should consist of: A one-page letter to the editor and one page on tips/advantages for writing a letter to the editor.

Tax considerations affect whether one chooses to do business as a certain form of business organization. Using an analysis of the three major business forms—sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations—figure out what form would be most advantageous financially to use assuming that each one of them had an annual income of $100,000. The analysis must include: formation and operation, risk/liabilities, tax treatment of parties involved, and dissociation and dissolution. What steps could one take to minimize the amount of federal income taxes imposed upon each type of business enterprise?

When writing your paper use the following guidelines:

The body of your paper should be 750-1,000 words in length (not including front matter or end matter like the cover page, abstract, reference); in 12 point font, and single or double spaced.
At least 2 external, quality research sources must also be consulted, and referenced in the text and cited in the Reference Page.
Your paper will be evaluated with attention to the following elements

Meets word count requirement; (750-1,000 words in the body + a Cover and Reference Page)
Mechanics, Usage, and Grammar
Original content and thought
Includes thoughtful analysis and commentary on the provided article plus the outside source you find to answer the proposed question(s).
Document design and layout

You can submit your paper in a question-and-answer format. In other words, list the questions and provide a short answer to each.

State the name of your community. At what time in your life did you live in this community? (i.e., were you raised there during childhood, do you live there now, or was it during another time in your life?)
Identify a specific environmental public health issue in the community.
Explain briefly why rates of disease or illness might be impacted by this environmental health issue. Please write 1–2 paragraphs about this, and be sure to cite sources rather than simply stating your opinion.
Identify one credible source of Environmental Health Data on that issue. (Please write 2–3 sentences maximum. Please provide a description of the source and a link (i.e., hyperlink or URL) directly to relevant data sources.
Discuss whether rates of disease or illness for the issue are being tracked in the community. Please write 2–3 paragraphs about this, and be sure to cite sources rather than simply stating your opinion.

Ali, R., Wheitner, D., Talbott, E., and Zborowski, J. (2007, October). Connecting environmental health data to people and policy: Integrating information and mobilizing communities for environmental public health tracking. Journal of Community Health, 32(5), 357-74.

Cannunscio, C. (2017). Social determinants of health [Video presentation]. Temple University of Department of Public Health and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. Accessed from https://vimeopro.com/aptrmodules/phlm/video/76355201

Carr, S. J. (2016, January). Insights in public health: Building well-being: Linking the built environment to health. Hawaii Journal of Medicine & Public Health, 75(1).

Rubin, L. & Merrick, J. (2014). Environmental health: Home, school, and community. [e-Book] New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Read: Chapter I: Break the cycle of environmental health disparities; and Chapter II: Use of undergraduate curriculum as a vehicle for breaking the cycle of environmental health disparities within disadvantaged communities.

Include your balanced scorecard and its impact on all stakeholders, and the communication plan.

Identify key trends, assumptions, and risks in the context of your final business model.

Develop the strategic objectives for your new division of the existing business in a balanced scorecard format in the context of key trends, assumptions, and risks. The strategic objectives are measures of attaining your vision and mission. As you develop them, consider the vision, mission, and values for your business and the outcomes of your SWOTT analysis.

Consider the following four quadrants of the balanced scorecard when developing your strategic objectives:

Shareholder Value or Financial Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
Market share
Revenues and costs
Profitability
Competitive position
Customer Value Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
Customer retention or turnover
Customer satisfaction
Customer value
Process or Internal Operations Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
Measure of process performance
Productivity or productivity improvement
Operations metrics
Impact of change on the organization
Learning and Growth (Employee) Perspective, which includes strategic objectives in areas such as:
Employee satisfaction
Employee turnover or retention
Level of organizational capability
Nature of organizational culture or climate
Technological innovation
Evaluate potential alternatives to the issues and/or opportunities identified in the SWOTT Analysis assignment and table you completed in Week 3.

Create at least three strategic objectives for each of the four balanced scorecard areas. Base your solutions on a ranking of alternative solutions including the following:

Identify potential risks and mitigation plans.
Analyze a stakeholder and include mitigation and contingency strategies.
Incorporate ethical implications.
Develop a specific metric and target for each strategic objective using a balanced scorecard format.

Example: a strategic objective in the shareholder or financial perspective is to increase market share. A metric to actually measure this strategic objective of market share increase is, “The percentage of increase in market share.” The target is the specific number to be achieved in a particular time period. The target for the metric of “Increase market share” could be “Increase market share by 2% for each of the next 3 years” of an increase of 2% per year for 3 years.

The Australian Government introduced a Carbon Tax in 2012 to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and to tackle the serious environmental problem of climate change. The Coalition Government introduced a Direct Action Plan to replace the Carbon Tax and to achieve the same goal of greenhouse gas mitigation.

Details of the task:

Briefly discuss the main motivation of implementing these policies. Compare and contrast these two policies and evaluate the incentives for both policies in reducing emissions. Which policy is ‘best’? Why? Explain an alternative policy to the Carbon Tax and Direct Action Plan the government could employ to reduce emissions?

The project should at minimum:

– Discuss the rationale and the theoretical underpinnings of a Carbon Tax and compare it with the Direct Action Plan
– Identify what you believe is the ‘best’ policy alternative and why.
– Explain an alternative policy to the Carbon Tax and Direct Action Plan

Formatting the Final Project

The final document should be submitted as a double-spaced Microsoft Word document with:

a title page indicating the title of the project, your name and student ID number
an introduction and conclusion (even if they are brief)
use the Harvard referencing style for both in-text referencing and citing and in the end of the document reference list.
You are encouraged to embed online media (hyperlinks to specific websites, videos and podcasts) in order to comply with the word limit restriction. It makes sense to provide more analysis and present descriptive contents using external web links or hypertexts. However, this should be to support your own analysis. Your teacher should be able to assess your knowledge and skills to complete this task via your own ability to meet the subject intended learning outcomes:

Evaluate the empirical evidence relating to climate change and its adverse impacts on natural and built environments in Australia.
Apply economic principles relating to climate change and evaluate key mitigation and adaptation policies in both developed and developing countries.
Discuss core strategic issues relating to the international response to climate change mitigation.
Assess and propose appropriate adaptation and business strategies in response to climate change and present them in a report.

As an independent event organiser within the West Midlands, you have been approached by a corporate client to assist in the planning and development of a conference (for 500 people). You are therefore required to write a report which:

• Defines the event project and proposes the event’s objectives
• Critically explores the anticipated needs of customers
• Uses a weighted criteria model / centre of gravity method to identify and justify a suitable event venue / location
• Includes a detailed map of the locality with supportive justifications for your choice (Ordnance Survey map of area or similar preferred)
• Develops a work breakdown schedule
• Evaluates the resource requirements
• Presents a suitable project management model (Gantt Chart) detailing the anticipated timeframe and anticipated planned scheduling of the event together with supportive justifications for your actions
• Offers reasoned conclusions and recommendations

Additional supporting information for the report (if appropriate) can be provided in the Appendices.

Module Learning Outcomes covered in this assignment:
Analyse the basis of effective customer service incorporating an awareness of relevant issues affecting stakeholder groups

Evaluate a wide range of location considerations, which may impact the effective and efficient outcome of an event

Cancer and Women’s and Men’s Health
The American Cancer Society estimates that by the end of 2012, more than 226,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 241,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer (American Cancer Society, 2012a; American Cancer Society 2012b). With such prevalence of women’s and men’s cancers, patient education and preventive services are essential. In clinical settings, advanced practice nurses must assist physicians in educating patients on risk factors, preventive services, and for patients diagnosed with cancer, on potential drug treatments. The clinical implications of women’s and men’s cancer greatly depend on early detection, which is primarily achieved through preventive services. In this Assignment, you consider the short-term and long-term implications of cancer and drug treatments associated with women’s and men’s health, as well as appropriate preventive services.

To prepare:
Select a type of cancer associated with women’s or men’s health such as breast, cervical, or ovarian cancer in women and prostate cancer in men.
Locate and review articles examining the type of cancer you selected.
Review the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force article in the Learning Resources. Think about available preventive services that providers might recommend for patients at risk of this type of cancer.
Select two of the following factors: genetics, gender, ethnicity, age, or behavior. Reflect on how these factors might impact decisions related to preventive services.
Consider drug treatment options for patients diagnosed with the type of cancer you selected including short-term and long-term implications of the treatments.

Write a 2- to 3- page paper that addresses the following:
Describe available preventive services that providers might recommend for patients at risk of the type of cancer you selected.
Explain how the factors you selected might impact decisions related to preventive services.
Describe drug treatment options for patients diagnosed with the type of cancer you selected. Explain the short-term and long-term implications of these treatments.