Colombia and Malaria
1. What country did you choose (Colombia) and what are some of the social determinants of health? (You do not need to write out the social determinants of health in complete sentences, you may bullet them)
2. What is the healthcare policy issue you chose (Malaria) and how and why do the identified social determinants of health contribute to the issue you selected?
3. What are the healthcare politics of your country and how do they drive your chosen country’s response to the healthcare policy issue?
4. How does the healthcare policy issue you chose affect the common citizen of your chosen country on a local basis?
5. How does the healthcare policy issue you chose affect the US and the international community as a whole?
6. Provide conclusions (worth 30 points, needs to be substantive) which can be drawn from your research about the healthcare policy issue and include projections that can be made about the future of this issue in your country over the next 5 years.Country Description (Some Social Determinants of Health) Each Rubric Point is 2%
Introduction to the country
May use Bullets instead of complete sentences with Citations for the following:
-Location
-Socioeconomic status
-Age distribution
-Level of education
Body of the Paper – Each Rubric Point is 10%
Introduce your healthcare policy issue and describe how and why the relevant social
determinants of health of your country contribute to the healthcare policy issue you
selected
Describe the political system of the your chosen country
Describe the healthcare politics that drive your chosen country’s response to the
healthcare policy issue
Describe how the healthcare policy issue you chose impacts or affects the common
citizen of your chosen country on a local basis
Describe how the healthcare policy issue you selected affect the US and the international
community as a whole
Conclusion – Each Rubric Point is 15%
Provide conclusions which can be drawn from your research about the healthcare policy
issue
Include projections that can be made about the future of this healthcare policy issue in
your chosen country over the next 5 years