Week 05 Project Assignment – Literature Review
- Identify the target population you will focus on. For instance, if your interest is in access to mammography, this is your chance to become more specific, such as access to mammography among black women (a vulnerable group) in rural areas of Vermont.
- Write a paragraph about why this specific population is of concern regarding this particular health problem.
- Review the literature. Discuss the medical literature but also include information pertaining to applicable law and regulation, statistics (include attendant data sources) as it pertains to your topic, and synthesize the information to describe the extent of the problem.
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