The Punjab Culture: History, Disparities, and Public Health Initiatives

1. and provide some background on the culture:

• Describe your relationship to this culture. 


• Provide historical context for the culture, including its origins and key developments that have helped shape the culture and the experience of its members, including challenges to social justice and equity. 


• Membership demographics and characteristics – who makes up this culture, such as nationality, race/ethnicity, spirituality/religion, and location. 

1. Identify and describe a disparity experienced by this group.  This can be a health disparity which is a higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced by one group relative to another, a health care disparity which typically refers to differences between groups in health insurance coverage, access to and use of care, and quality of culturally appropriate care (KFF, 2018) or a disparity in the social determinants of health such as access to quality education or housing and how that affects the group’s health

III.  Present data that support your beliefs about the identified disparity in this population OR discuss why you think the existing data does NOT support the existence of the health disparity OR why you think the data does not exist to support the disparity (such as the cultural group not historically being counted in national data, such as with Transgender communities. 

The data and analysis should include:

• Who experiences the disparity, who is/are the comparison groups, and data on the specific disparity?


• The significance and/or outcomes of the disparity


• Factors that affect the disparity such as policies or the absence of policies, access to culturally appropriate care, location and the built environment, or access to education.

1. Identify a public health initiative that has been implemented for the disparity in the identified cultural group:

• What was the initiative(s) about, including the region it was conducted, priority  population, and strategies and activities that are utilized in the initiative?


• What makes the initiative culturally competent?


• How did the organization engage their identified population?


• How successful were the initiatives in addressing the disparity and improving health outcomes in your chosen population group?


• Discuss suggestions or recommendations you have for to supplement or improve the initiative(s), and in developing future programs or public health initiatives for this population group based on the concepts you have learned in this class.

General Requirements:

• Be sure to begin with an introduction, and end with a conclusion.


• The paper should be organized around the Social-Ecological Model and a Public Health framework


• The paper is to be written in APA format (7^th Edition) with the following requirements:
  
  
  • 1” margins
  
  
  • A properly formatted title page
  
  
  • page numbers
  
  
  • Times Roman 12 pt. font with double spacing
  
  Proper use of level headings to guide yourself while writing and to guide the reader through your work.  At a minimum you must use level I headings for the major portions.

• Research is a necessity for this assignment. You must use at least five (5) scholarly resources. If you are unclear as to what is a scholarly source, please see your instructor.


• You should use in-text citations for information from external sources, and an APA formatted reference page.