The document discusses how where a person lives can affect their health. It explains that living conditions influence health in several ways. People living in prosperous areas with readily available and affordable healthcare tend to live longer and experience fewer health issues than those in distressed areas lacking reliable access to care. Challenges include economic barriers that prevent many from affording medical services and higher risks of diseases in places without clean water or sufficient nutrition. The document concludes that where an individual resides is an important determinant of health outcomes.

1. How does where People Live Affect their Health?
Whenever it comes to the health of a person, where individual
lives matter a lot, the reason is that where a person lives may
affect the health of the particular individual(s). In recent years,
health has become a very fundamental social concern. However,
the apprehension regarding the health concerns has been
escalating due to the wake of the extensive coverage by the
media regarding the issues like rapid spread of infectious
diseases, disease outbreaks and even the availability and
affordability of the health care, (Allender, 2013). Due to this
concern, location issues become of great importance when
addressing the numerous health issues. The location influences
are also shifting constantly, and environmental concerns are
also changing. Therefore, human health becomes of great
concern, especially when it comes to where an individual lives.
Regarding the issue of how does where a person lives affect his
or her health, the availability and affordability of health care is
the major thing to consider. For instance, the individuals that
live in prosperous countries or counties have health care that is
highly available and affordable. Due to this case, there is a view
that they live for about five or seven years longer than those
living in areas where there is no availability and affordability of
health care. Within the prosperous countries, individuals have
high accessibility to better health care, have access to medical
professionals and all other aspects of human health,
(Hernandez, 2013). As a result, they do not suffer from mental
illnesses and the incidence of drug and substance abuse. In
these areas, the health issues are at low percentages, and the
possibilities of deaths are also low due to the availability and

2. affordability of health care. The individuals living in these
regions are also deemed to be economically stable; therefore,
they can afford better health care.
On the contrary, individuals living in distressed counties or
countries do not have access to affordable and reliable health
care. Instead, they rely on the inadequate health care that is
provided to them that may not be available at times, (Janet,
2013). The individuals are also prone to waterborne diseases
since they cannot have access to clean water for drinking. They
are also at risks of malnutrition since they cannot afford a
balanced diet for the children and the adults. In the long run,
they are exposed to the numerous health issues which they
cannot handle at any cost. The other notable thing is that the
individuals living in the distressed regions are the low-income
earners or have no source of income at all. Due to this case,
getting access to medical care becomes hard due to the
increased levels of poverty that is experienced among these
people.
Notably, the death rates in these distressed regions due to
mental diseases and substance abuse is 64 percent higher as
compared to the individuals that live in the prosperous regions
or countries. It is also notable that in every country, there are
those individuals that live in the distressed and others who live
in the prosperous areas. The ones in the distressed regions do
not have affordable and reliable health care; hence, their health
is greatly affected. The individuals living in prosperous areas
experience little cases of health concerns since they can access
and afford health care. Therefore, where a person lives affects
his or her health.
References
Allender, J. A., Rector, C. L., & Warner, K. D.
(2013). Community & public health nursing: Promoting the

3. public's health.
Hernandez, B. L. M. (2011). Foundation concepts of global
community health promotion and education.
Janet R. Weber, Jane H. Kelley. (2013). Health assessment in
Nursing.
IDS 402 Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: For this milestone, due in Module Five, you will
submit a draft of the Plan section of your presentation. In this
section, you will create the visual facet
of your final project presentation. Keep in mind that in Module
Six you will be submitting Milestone Four, which is the oral
narration component, and your voice
will be the primary carrier of your message and the visuals will
play a supporting role. You want your voice and visuals to work
together and not compete for
attention, so you should minimize the number of words on each
slide and maximize the use of visual elements, including
photographs, illustrations, and graphs.
You will submit this milestone as two documents: a presentation
draft in PowerPoint that will include visuals and a Word
document with your speaker notes.
Milestone Three provides you with an opportunity to obtain
valuable feedback from your instructor that you can incorporate
into your final project submission.
Prompt: In this milestone, you will start assembling your
multimedia presentation. Create a multimedia presentation draft
using visuals* to articulate your plan
to address the issue you described in Milestone Two.

4. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
III. Plan: For this part of the assessment, you will offer
recommendations and a plan to improve your chosen issue as
well as strategies for implementing
your plan.
A. Explain the goals of your plan. What are the specific goals
you are trying to accomplish with your plan?
B. Make recommendations for how the current issue could be
addressed in order to minimize its impact on the target
population. Think of specific
strategies or tactics that you could implement to address the
issue.
C. Consider the implications of social attitudes and individual
choices to lifelong health and wellness. If you were in charge of
addressing your
chosen issue, what challenges would you face when
implementing your plan? How would you address those
challenges? Support your answer
with relevant research or diverse perspectives.
D. Explain the strengths of your plan and why it is likely it
would be successful.
PowerPoint: You are required to include a combination of text,
visuals, and speaker notes in order to support your PowerPoint
presentation. Use the Check File
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or Audio Playback Issues? resources to help you check
compatibility between versions of Office.
Also, follow the instructions on the Microsoft Support page to
compress your presentation as a zipped file. Upload the zipped

5. file when submitting Milestone
Three. Reducing the size of the presentation file by compressing
it will make it easier for your instructor to download and grade
your presentation.
*Note: The final presentation requires the use of both visuals
and audio. In Module Four, you practiced adding audio to a
PowerPoint slide to prepare for
Milestone Four’s oral narration of your presentation.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Milestone Three should be
approximately 4 to 5 presentation slides in length with 2 to 3
pages of speaker notes. The speaker notes
should be submitted in a separate Word document with 12-point
Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins.
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combination of text and visuals in order to support your work.
Cite your supporting sources in APA or MLA format. If you

6. require alternative accommodations for
completing this assignment, reach out to your instructor directly
for more information.
Note that the grading rubric for this milestone submission is not
identical to that of the final project. The Final Project Rubric
will include an additional
“Exemplary” category that provides guidance as to how you can
go above and beyond “Proficient” in your final submission.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (85%)
Not Evident (0%) Value
Plan: Goals Explains the goals of the plan Explains the goals of
the plan, but
explanation is cursory
Does not explain the goals of the plan 20
Plan:
Recommendations
Makes recommendations for how the
current issue could be addressed in order to
minimize its impact on the target population
Makes recommendations for how the
current issue could be addressed in order to
minimize its impact on the target population,
but recommendations made are cursory
Does not make recommendations for how
the current issue could be addressed in order
to minimize its impact on the target
population

7. 25
Plan: Challenges Explains what challenges will be faced when
implementing the plan and uses relevant
research or diverse perspectives
Explains what challenges will be faced when
implementing the plan and uses research or
diverse perspectives, but explanation is
cursory or use of research or diverse
perspectives is inappropriate
Does not explain what challenges will be
faced when implementing the plan or use
relevant research or diverse perspectives
25
Plan: Strengths Explains the strengths of the plan and why it
is likely to be successful
Explains the strengths of the plan and why it
is likely to be successful, but explanation is
cursory
Does not explain the strengths of the plan
and why it is likely to be successful
20
Articulation of
Response
Submission has no major errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or

8. organization
Submission has major errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that negatively impact
readability and articulation of main ideas
Submission has critical errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent understanding of
ideas
10
Total 100%