Outdoor Air Quality in Humboldt Park Community
NUR 4145 Community and Population Focused Health
Clinical Assignment #2: Environmental Health
This assignment will develop a beginning understanding of environmental health concepts in the
community setting. Students will consider how HealthyPeople 2020 environmental health themes impact
their community, and apply concepts such as “social justice” and “the greater good” in evaluating public
health initiatives.
Learning Objectives
1. Describe the impact of various environmental public health hazards.
2. Investigate strategies that address solutions to environmental public health hazards.
3. Explore policy and legislation related to environmental health issues in the community.
Background
Students should familiarize themselves with HealthyPeople 2020’s Environmental Health objectives,
which focus on 6 themes: 1) outdoor air quality; 2) surface and ground water quality; 3) toxic substances
and hazardous wastes; 4) homes and communities; 5) infrastructure and surveillance; and 6) global
environmental health.
Students can access https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/environmental-health for
more information.
Instructions for Individual Activity
Each student will choose one of the HealthyPeople 2020’s Environmental Health themes to investigate
and explore how their community (chosen with Clinical Assignment #1: Community
Assessment/Windshield Survey) is affected and impacted by this theme, as well as what is being done to
address this environmental health theme to safeguard or improve societal and environmental health.
Students should search relevant public/governmental agency websites and media/newspaper publications
to help understand the situation from historical, present, and future oriented perspectives. The EPA’s My
Environment website may also be helpful (https://www3.epa.gov/enviro/myenviro/). Students will then
create a 2-page paper (approximately 500 words) that addresses the following:
• Briefly describe the selected environmental health theme.
• Discuss how the community is affected/impacted by this environmental health theme.
• Explore the selected environmental health situation from historical, present, and future-oriented
perspectives.
• Discuss any strategies that are planned or have been implemented to address this environmental
health theme to safeguard or improve societal and environmental health. Consider the barriers and
facilitators for success of these strategies. Propose strategies if none are found.
• Within the paper, students should consider and address population health concepts such as “social
justice” and “the gre
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Clinical Assignment #2: Environmental Health
Investigation
Course: NUR4145-03:Community and Population Focused Health (2022 Spring Term 2)-14709
Criteria
Exemplary
5 points
Satisfactory
4 points
Progressing
3 points
Unsatisfactory
2 points
Omitted
0 points
Criterion
Score
Briefly
describes
the selected
environment
al health
theme.
/ 5
Discuss how
the
community
is
affected/im
pacted by
this
environment
al theme.
/ 5
Demonstrates
professional
level writing,
synthesis of
ideas with
support from
research as
applicable
Demonstrates
proficient
college level
writing,
develops ideas
with enough
and firm
evidence
Demonstrates
emerging
college level
writing, shows
some thinking
and reasoning
but most ideas
are
underdevelope
d and
unoriginal
Does not
demonstrate
college level
writing,
thoughts are
incomplete
and
inconsistently
developed
Section
omitted
Demonstrates
professional
level writing,
synthesis of
ideas with
support from
research as
applicable
Demonstrates
proficient
college level
writing,
develops ideas
with enough
and firm
evidence
Demonstrates
emerging
college level
writing, shows
some thinking
and reasoning
but most ideas
are
underdevelope
d and
unoriginal
Does not
demonstrate
college level
writing,
thoughts are
incomplete
and
inconsistently
developed
Section
omitted
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Criteria
Exemplary
5 points
Satisfactory
4 points
Progressing
3 points
Unsatisfactory
2 points
Omitted
0 points
Criterion
Score
Explore the
selected
environment
al healt
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