Consider a health topic of your choice and investigate what current NGOs are doing on behalf of your chosen topic. (Keep in mind that the country you focus on in this course should not be the United States.) Remember, you need to make contact with your chosen NGO, or population health professional with knowledge of NGOs, and interview them. After your interview, evaluate the NGO, paying special attention to its ability (and potential willingness) to get help with your health topic of choice. For your assessment, make sure you are addressing the following:
Provide a history of the selected organization.
Include current data related to money raised, money distributed, and the effect on the health initiative.
Examine the determining criteria for this organization to get involved in a health issue.
What surprised (or aligned with your expectations) about public health delivery?
How has this experience affected you?
Length of paper: 5 double-spaced pages.
Portfolio Prompt: You are required to save this learning activity to your
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Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Evaluate global health issues.
Analyze the sufficiency of data available to meet the criteria public health NGOs use to choose to get involved in a health issue.
Explain the advantages public health NGOs have over government-sponsored programs.Summarize the challenges public health NGOs have in comparison with government-sponsored programs.
Competency 4: Analyze multiple perspectives, without bias, on policies that affect health care.
Differentiate public health NGOs from governmental public health organizations.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Competency 6: Obtain the minimum expected practicum hours.
Explain how practicum research and interviewing experiences challenged or met assumptions about public health organizations and delivery.
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