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Your Portfolio Project for this class is a community action plan designed to alleviate or correct a public health issue in your community. Your community can be your business, school, neighborhood, town or city of residence or birth, or county. Consider the philosophical and ethical foundations of public health presented in Chapter 3 of your textbook and how the issues in your community compare to the authors’ presentation of global public health issues all communities face.

For your discussion this week, tell us the public health issue and the community you are considering to use for your Portfolio Project.

In your post, discuss your public health idea. Incorporate at least two references from a newspaper, trade magazine, website, or peer-reviewed journal that speak to the public health issue you have selected. One reference must address the specific public health problem in the community you have selected to examine. The second reference must offer up a potential solution to the type of public health issue you have identified (it does not need to refer to your specific issue in the community you are working on).
Discuss any ethical, moral or political responsibility, as described in Chapter 3 of your text, that you feel your community has to address this issue.
Post your response by Thursday.
Next, review and comment on at least two other students’ posts by Sunday night. Your review must offer a helpful suggestion to each student’s proposed project. That might be, for example, a resource, an organization, or a theory that could help the student along in his or her topic development. You might also mention a community-based ethical, moral or political responsibility your classmate has not yet thought of sharing
MY PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE IS: CHILD POVERTY IN COLORADO.

Robert · Accepted Answer

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Child Poverty in Colorado 
In 2013, 17 percent of children under 18 in Colorado were living in poverty, defined as 
an annual income no more than $23,550 for a family of four. Between 2012 and 2013, the 
percent of children living in poverty in Colorado declined for the first time since 2008. However, 
the number of Colorado children in poverty remains almost twice as high as it was in the year 
2000. In 2013, Saguache County had the highest percent of children in poverty with 43 percent 
and Douglas County had the lowest with 4 percent. 
The County’s childhood population was also more nonwhite than in 2000, when 53 percent of its 
children were considered non-white, a category that included Hispanics, Asians, blacks and kids 
of two or more races. In 2010, 59 percent of the county’s children were non-white.  
In 2015, Colorado’s child poverty rate stood at 14.7 percent, less than the national child poverty 
rate 21 percent in 2015.

Your Portfolio Project for this class is a community action plan designed to alleviate or correct a public health issue in your community. Your community can be your business, school, neighborhood,...

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