This assignment requires you to reflect critically on the themes covered in a Public Health course on Determinants of Health Behavior. Your essay should integrate various course concepts, demonstrate your understanding of these themes, and provide personal insights or applications to real-world scenarios.
Assignment Instructions
Select Key Themes
Identify the course’s main themes that resonated with you or that you found particularly impactful.
Detail and Accuracy
Provide a detailed and accurate explanation of these themes using specific references to course materials, readings, lectures, or discussions.
Integration and Application
Integrate multiple course concepts and themes, showing how they interrelate. Apply these themes to relevant personal experiences, public health scenarios, or current events.
Reflection and Analysis
Reflect on the course themes, offering your personal insights.
Clarity, Coherence, and Quality
Ensure your essay is well-organized, clear, and coherent. Your writing should be of high quality, with proper grammar, spelling, and adherence to academic standards.
Formatting and Submission
Length: Your essay should be approximately 1500-2000 words.
Format: Use a standard academic format with 1-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font, and double spacing.
Citations: Properly cite all sources using APA format.
Use concepts in: 
Systems Thinking 
Foundations of health behavior and behavior therapy
Social determinants of health
Health belief model
Theory of planned behavior
Models of behavior change in stages
Social, cultural, and environmental theories , multilevel theories, epigenetics 
Doing Something About It: The Ecological Perspective and the Move from Theory to Practice
Communities and Populations as the Focus for Health Promotion Programs
Application of Theory: Schools and worksites 
Application of Theory: Communications Campaigns
Application of Theory: Global Health
Application of Theory: High-Risk and Special Populations
Evaluation: What Is It? Why Is It Needed? How Does It Relate to Theory?