Analyze the influence of cultural, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors on public health.
Scenario
As a public health nurse at a community clinic, your supervisor has asked you to research and examine childhood obesity in the community. You have been asked to create a visual concept map to be shared during a staff meeting to illustrate your findings on the cultural, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors that are contributing to childhood obesity as well as determining how the community clinic can promote healthy behaviors to address childhood obesity.
Instructions
Create a visual concept map on child obesity and the factors influencing childhood obesity that:
Identifies a specific community to research and provides statistical data on childhood obesity in the selected community.
Analyzes the cultural, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors that influence childhood obesity.
It illustrates the connection between childhood obesity, behavior, culture, and socioeconomic status.
Describes how the promotion of health behaviors will help to reduce and ultimately eliminate childhood obesity.
Explains ways the public health nurse can support healthy behaviors while responding to the diverse needs in the community.
Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the visual concept map.
What is the concept map? A concept map is a visual representation of knowledge in an orderly, structured, hierarchical, and visual way. Concept maps are more formal, structured presentations of knowledge where the hierarchy of information is important to the understanding of the concept.
Why create a concept map? A concept map is an easy way to visually structure ideas to help with analysis and information recall. Concept maps, or mind maps, can help enhance learning and communication by organizing information in an easy to digest medium. It helps to make sense of a central concept by allowing one to see the big picture. Concept maps have been shown to create stronger neuronal connections that are activated during decision-making.
What should I include in a concept map?A concept map has the main concept at the top of the map (a genetic condition). Supporting subconcepts (assessment considerations, the potential impact of assessment, legal considerations, etc) are arranged in an ordered structure from more general to most specific. Be sure to include lines and linking words to make the relationship between the items clear.
Do you have some examples of concept maps?
How do I create a concept map? There are many options for creating a concept map, so you can do a quick Google search for "concept map maker" to explore different websites and find the one you like best.
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