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1. Identifying the Determinants of Health DQ
Identifying the Determinants of Health DQIdentifying the Determinants of Health DQYou
have been hired as head of the Maternal, Infant, and Reproductive Health Task Force in
Centervale. The mission of the task force is to reduce the growing rate of adolescent
pregnancy in Centervale using a multicomponent, ecological approach.The task force
includes representatives from the medical community, community-based organizations that
serve low income and minority populations, schools, parents, and teen advocacy groups.
Each group has an interest in the issue, although there are several opinions about how the
problem should be addressed. Previous meetings (prior to your participation) lacked focus
and direction and consisted primarily of members voicing opinions.You were hired for this
position based on your ability to apply theoretically sound, evidence-based principles to the
development and evaluation of programs and policies. Over the next several weeks, you will
develop brief planning and background documents to use as the basis for the development
and evaluation of a comprehensive program. You will then prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint
presentation of your program for the Board of Directors. The first step is to learn more
about adolescent pregnancy prevention, and the behavioral, cultural, and environmental
risk factors associated with this health issue.Using the online resources, review scholarly
literature on adolescent pregnancy prevention, including the behavioral, cultural, and
environmental risk factors associated with this health issue.Provide a brief overview of
adolescent pregnancy issues.Explain the key behavioral, cultural, and environmental risk
factors.Be sure to provide illustrative examples in support.Do not focus on how the problem
can be “fixed,” but only on the risk or causative factors.Focus on the following:Which factors
do you think are the most important and why?Which factors do you think are the most and
least changeable?Which factors are the most important for reducing or preventing
adolescent pregnancy?Support your positions with at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed
articles. Include a reference page. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and
organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and
attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.Write a 3
full page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.ORDER NOW
FOR CUSTOMIZED, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPERSYou must proofread your paper. But do not
strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so
indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly.
Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read
over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as

2. necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious
errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.Use a standard 10
to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers
with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over
the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.Likewise,
large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space
between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at
“padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not
fool your professor.The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch
margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to
use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be
hard to follow your argument