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Health Promotion Program

Assume that you are working in a community health department. The department has some federal money that it wants to allocate to two health promotion programs from the following:

• Decrease in deaths from cardiovascular disease
• Decrease in deaths from breast cancer
• Decrease in teenage pregnancy
• Decrease in cigarette smoking
• Decrease in incidence of diabetes
• Decrease in motor vehicle accidents
• Decrease in osteoporosis and hip fractures among women
• Decrease in obesity

Identify the health promotion programs that you would want to investigate and get them approved by your instructor.

Write a 3- to 4-page report in a Microsoft Word document, aIDressing the following questions:

• Identify the risk factors associated with the selected health promotion programs.
• What is the target population associated with the selected health promotion program? Consider the hypothetical target population, consisting of miIDle-aged women, male adolescent gang members, premature infants, etc., and describe the characteristics of each program.
• What are the risk factors that you want to focus on in order to achieve the objective of the health promotion program?
• What intervention would you recommend to be most appropriate to reduce exposure to these risk factors? You can choose at what level of interventio