We have to choose 3 stakeholders for this assignment. All the required references and instructions are provided below.
Instructions for Assignment 1
· Use the format below – do not add anything and do not omit any of the sections.
· Use a formal, academic writing style.
· Use in text references. All information from a source must be referenced. All references used must appear on the reference list in Harvard format.
· If you do not know how to reference, make sure you find out before submitting this assignment.
· Submit your assignment in Moodle in MSWord.
Structure of Assignment 1
1)
Introduction
– Identify the three chosen groups (list is in the study guide)
The groups you may choose from are:
1. Local government
2. Science/health experts
3. Local business interests
4. The media
5. Representatives of the long-term community (people who have lived in a given location for10 years or more)
6. Representatives of new groups (people who have recently arrived in or moved to a given location)
7. Local health care personnel
8. State (or higher level) government
And gives a general indication of who they are or what they do. You should indicate why they are important in a public health initiative or program in terms of their position in the community and characterize the nature of their relationship with the agencies responsible for ensuring the health of the public.;
2)
Roles in a Public health Event
– For the groups you have chosen, describe their role in a public health event. Make sure to consider whether their role is official or non-official and whether they are personally at risk of health impacts or if they experience some other kind of risk. You need to think about this very carefully to determine the position of each of your chosen groups and identify the risks they might face.;
3)
Risks and Responsibilities
– For the groups you have chosen, describe the nature of the risks identified in the previous section. Make sure to consider whether the risk is direct or indirect, whether it is a risk to health or another kind of risk, what the specific health or non-health risk involves, and what the group’s responsibilities are in relation to the public health event and its own and other group’s risks. In other words, you must think about the groups you have chosen as part of an interrelated community (a system) and consider the overall risk situation as well as the interactions between risk for your groups.;
4)
Role in Public health Decision-Making
– For the groups you have chosen, consider how they contribute to decision-making in the context of a public health event. Be sure to discuss whether their contribution is official or unofficial, the channel through which they might affect the decision-making process. and the degree to which their impact is informed by evidence-based and non-evidence-based knowledge. You need to build on what you discussed in section 2 above and try to show the linkages between the groups you have chosen as well as others you did not discuss.;
5)
Conclusion
– Discuss the position of each of the groups you have chosen in a public health event. You may want to consider whether they are actors or bystanders, for example, or use some other classification, but be sure to state which group(s) you feel are likely to be affected most significantly, the nature of the impact, and why you believe this would occur. The information here should be an analysis of and/or conclusion drawn from what you covered in sections 1-4 and should represent your own opinion.
Useful References
The following are some references you can use for this assignment. There are many other possible references available. Everything you refer to or take information from MUST BE referenced in the text of your assignment.
Covello, VT(2003).Best Practices in Public Health Risk and Crisis Communication.Journal of Health Communication,8 (sup1):5-8.
Lasker, RD and Weiss, ES (2003). Creating Partnership Synergy: The Critical Role of Community Stakeholders. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 26 (1): 119-139.
Longest, B and Rohrer, W (2005). Communication between Public Health Agencies and Their External Stakeholders.Journal of Health and Human Services Administration,
28(2): 189-217.
Marks, L, Cave, S and Hunter, DJ (2010). Public Health Governance: Views of Key Stakeholders. Public Health, 124 (1): 55-59.
Rudin,RS, Simon,SR, Volk,LA, Tripathi, M and Bates,D (2009).
Understanding the Decisions and Values of Stakeholders in Health Information Exchanges: Experiences From Massachusetts, American Journal of Public Health99: 950-955.
Trayers, T, Deem, R, Fox, KR, Riddoch, J, Ness, AR and Lawlor, DA (2006). Improving health through neighbourhood environmental change: are we speaking the same language? A qualitative study of views of different stakeholdersJournal of Public Health, Volume 28, Issue 1, March 2006, Pages 49–55.
NACCHO (2020). Communication with Stakeholder of Public Health Accreditation: A Guide for Public Health Departments.
https://www.naccho.org/uploads/downloadable-resources/Programs/Public-Health-Infrastructure/PHI-Guide-for-Communication-with-Stakeholders-of-Public-Health-Accred.pdf