Research an environmental health issue in your residential community or research an environmental health issue of interest to you that impacts the people within a different community
Your paper must be in General Format APA style. Please see the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) APA Guide under “Content.” Your paper must be written in size 12 TIMES NEW ROMAN font, double spaced lines. 8.5” x 11” paper, 1 inch margins. It must be minimum 5 pages – maximum 7 pages (including Title Page, Abstract, and References). It must include:
1 page = Title Page
2 page = Abstract
1 – 2 pages:
Introduction: the history, etiology, and current stats of your chosen environmental health issue (how long has this been an issue, what are the main historical facts associated with this issue, what causes this issue, where does this issue occur, how many and who/what does this affect currently, etc.)
1 – 2 pages:
Discussion and Conclusion: include
A) sources of scientific data and the types of studies associated with your chosen environmental health issue (who studies and/or investigates this issue, what type of studies/research/reports are created as a result, are the results of the studies/research/reports in conformance with each other for the most part or do the results differ widely, if they conform with each other, what are the major findings, etc.)
B) the monitoring or screening in the environment or community associated with your chosen environmental health issue (what type of monitoring of the environment is conducted, what type of screenings are conducted in the community). And
C) any new/recent insights into and/or innovative solutions to your chosen environmental health issue (what are the findings of the latest research, are there any new developments recently, any developments that
should promising but are still in the research phase etc.) or possible research why there an no new/recent insights/innovations/developments.
REFERENCE PAGE: at least 3 – 5 references, must include at least one (1) Essentials of Environmental Health text reference and one (1) scientific journal article reference
