This document provides guidelines for a research paper assignment on public health administration topics. It specifies that the paper should be 8-10 double-spaced pages, not including references or additional materials. The paper must follow APA formatting and cite at least 5 peer-reviewed journal articles. It will be graded on organization, depth of research, analysis, writing quality, formatting, and adherence to guidelines. Students must choose one of three paper topics on public health partnerships, leadership challenges in public health programs, or analyzing organizational change in public health using a change management framework.
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1. The paper's purpose is to provide practical experience in
effectively using health care research resources through library
databases and Internet search engines and to enable you to write
more effectively about public health administration topics. The
length of the paper should be from eight to ten double-spaced
pages, not including the title page, references, or any charts or
tables.
The paper must meet all APA standards and your references
must include at least five peer-reviewed journal articles.
Grading criteria will include organization, the depth of fact-
finding, the depth of analysis, sophistication of thinking,
strength and clarity of writing, paper formatting, and the degree
to which the paper followed the published guidelines. See the
Standardized Writing Rubric in the Course Content for specific
criteria.
Please select one of the following topics for your research
paper:
A. Public health partnerships are an important tool for
stretching limited resources. Using the literature and
information found in this course, explain in detail the different
types of partnerships (strategic orientation, categories, and
characteristics) and use that information to conduct an analysis
of two different public health partnerships. In your analysis,
you should describe the purposes, structure, goals of each of the
organizations and the two partnerships and how the
organizations quantify or measure their success. You should
conclude by comparing and contrasting the two partnerships and
describe any similarities and differences between them, identify
whether one program appears to have advantages over the other,
and explain why.
B. Interview a senior
leader or manager in a public health agency about a program
that they work in. You should describe the leader/manager's
background and describe his or her public health program in
2. detail (include its purpose, role in public health, leadership,
funding sources and amounts, and the measures that the program
uses to measure its success). You should then describe and
analyze three significant leadership challenges that the
leader/manager faces in their work and describe how/if they
have been able to resolve them. You must then use the literature
to provide context and to conduct a detailed analysis of at least
one of the challenges. Your analysis should result in a minimum
of three potential solutions for each of the challenges. Finally,
please remember to be courteous to the person and send a thank
you note after the interview. Note that interviews may be in
person or on the telephone.
C. Using an accepted change management framework (one
example might be "Leading Change" by John Kotter), analyze a
public health organization that has undergone or attempted to
undergo transformational change. Describe what the
organization did (or did not do), what was successful and what
was not successful, and describe leader behaviors and actions
that had an impact on the effort. Describe the degree to which
the organization followed or did not follow the change
management framework that you cite. Ground your analysis
with references from the literature.