Assignment: CHEMICAL HAZARDS
Overview
You are an Environmental Health Specialist in the public health department of the county where you reside. The city council is concerned about mercury pollution in a local lake area that is a major fishing and camping recreational attraction and brings many visitors.
Case Assignment
Your task in this Case Assignment is to:
1. Explain to the park community what the risks from fishing and swimming in the lake may be, due to mercury contamination.
2. Compare the risks from being in the lake water or eating fish caught in the lake, for different types of lake users (pregnant women, young children, older children, adults).
3. Prepare a list of recommendations and organize the list by potential uses of lake water and consumption of fish caught in the lake.
Assignment Expectations
Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your paper.
Length: The SLP assignment should be 3-5 pages long (double-spaced).
References: At least three references must be included from academic sources (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles). Required Reading is included. Quoted materials should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. Materials copied verbatim from external sources must be enclosed in quotation marks. In-text citations are required as well as a list of references at the end of the assignment. (APA format is recommended.)
Organization: Subheadings should be used to organize your paper according to the questions.
The following items will be assessed in particular:
• Achievement of learning objectives for SLP assignment.
• Relevance: All content is connected to the question.
• Precision: Specific question is addressed. Statements, facts, and statistics are specific and accurate.
• Depth of discussion: Points that lead to deeper issues are presented and integrated.
• Breadth: Multiple perspectives and references, and multiple issues/factors are considered.
• Evidence: Points are well supported with facts, statistics, and references.
• Logic: Discussion makes sense; conclusions are logically supported by premises, statements, or factual information.
• Clarity: Writing is concise and understandable, and contains sufficient detail or examples.
• Objectivity: Avoids the use of first person and subjective bias.
DISCUSSION
• POPs: Not the Soda Kind!
Discussion Topic
Watch the following 4-minute YouTube video on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
Then, answer the following questions:
1. Describe how two of the POP chemicals discussed may have affected the environment that you and your family live in.
2. Do you think that enough is being done about controlling human exposure to them?
Explain your thoughts and your rationale and provide supporting information.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Attachment:- Module-CASE.rar