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Using the article The Role of Public Policies in Reducing Smoking the Minnesota SimSmoke Tobacco Policy Model by Levi, D., Boyle, R. and Abrams, D. Minnesota SimSmoke Tobacco Model.pdf please complete the following assignment:

Read and provide a short summary of the article
Discuss how smoking is a community and public health issue using factors that affect the community from Chapter 1.
Discuss the role of national, state and local agencies in affecting smoking policies
Discuss the role of volunteer agencies in affecting smoking policies.

You are the emergency manager in a city with a population of 250,000 in the southeastern United States. Your city manager wants to aggressively reduce the city’s vulnerability to natural hazards and wants you to develop a policy to facilitate the city’s vulnerability to natural hazards.

In a policy proposal, explain how your city could reduce the city’s vulnerability to natural hazards. Provide at least 1 recommendation for improving the city’s protective measures for critical infrastructure. All recommendations must be sufficiently justified or backed up by academic sources. You should ensure that you address each of the 16 CI sectors.

Demonstrate an understanding of vulnerability by identifying 1 vulnerability in each of the 16 CI sectors.

For example, in the Agriculture and Food sector (among many others), a common vulnerability is flooding. Flooding is routinely mitigated by structural controls such as levees and dams (another sector).
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Address the following in a policy proposal of 3-4 pages (THAT MEANS I NEED 3 WRITTEN PAGES AND THAT’S NOT INCLUDING THE COVER PAGE OR REFERENCES.)

For each CI sector, do the following:

Identify 1–2 vulnerabilities that exist in your locality.

Describe the vulnerability or vulnerabilities, and explain their significance to the sector.

Provide 1–2 recommendations for improving the city’s protective measures for critical infrastructure.

How will the vulnerabilities be addressed (mitigation)?

Consider cost, practicality, complexity, danger, and maintenance in your recommendations.

For example, in the Agriculture and Food sector, a common vulnerability is flooding. Flooding is routinely mitigated by structural controls such as levees and dams.

Conclude your proposal with a summary of your findings.

Provide an overview of how your city could reduce its overall vulnerability to natural hazards.

Compile your responses into your final proposal, and submit the file to your instructor.

Identify a nutritional topic of interest that can be applied to a current nutritional issue
Identify information that addresses the nutritional issue
Analyze information for application to a defined population
Examine areas in which additional information may be needed to help a defined population address a nutritional issue
Recommend approaches to distribute the nutritional information to a defined population
Topics
You can use a variety of topics as the focus of your academic research paper. General topics include the following:

Identify macro- and micronutrients, their functions, and their effects on health and well-being.
Examine the differences in nutritional needs throughout the life cycle.
Explain the various factors that affect the safety of food products and the new technologies that affect food supplies.
If you’re interested in a specific topic, you’ll need to include the signs and symptoms and the relationship of these manifestations to the nutritional disorder. You’ll need to also focus on the treatment, the expected outcome of the treatment, measures to determine if the outcome has been reached, and any actions that can be taken to prevent the health problem.

Examples of specific topics include the following:

Application of nutrigenomics
Use of MyPlate with a vegetarian eating plan
Fluid balance through the lifespan
The impact of nutrition on the development of
Hypertension
Osteoporosis
Osteoarthritis
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Heart disease
Atherosclerosis
Protein-calorie malnutrition
Analysis of eating plans (fad diets) that restrict
Protein
Carbohydrates
Fats
What Is an Academic Paper?
An academic paper is a document that critically analyzes a specific topic. It begins with general information about the topic and then moves into the specifics. The specifics are explained by answering the “who, what, when, where, and why” about the topic. Some academic papers are written after a research study has been conducted. Others are written to support or refute a concept or idea.

COLLAPSE
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/index.html

https://www.autismspeaks.org/treatments-autism

https://iancommunity.org/cs/articles/strange_land

The increased use and acceptance of the Autism diagnosis began to rise dramatically in the early 2000s. Much of the focus has been on children on the spectrum and the supports which are needed for them to have the greatest quality in life. In 2020, clinicians are now faced with the growing number of adults who have been given a ASD diagnosis. While there are some programs with funding to assist this population, this country is not prepared to economically or physically support the percentage of people who will need these services. The attached article discusses concerns for ASD patients and employment. There are similar discussions surrounding housing and health care. Clinicians will be faced with providing therapy and supports to individuals who are ASD but do not have access to programs. How can we utilize behavioral therapy as a support for these individuals? What steps can be taken to promote high rates of employment and housing stability for these individuals? What argument can be made for a shift in the thought process of how we can assist individuals aging with Autism?

Discussion lecture

This week we are going to review the neurodevelopmental disorder, autism spectrum disorder. Please read the entire section on the Neurodevelopmental Disorders (pp. 31-86) in the DSM-5 (2013) so that you start to have an understanding how these disorders relate. Here is an excerpt written by the American Psychological Association(2013) that describes the development of the criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD):

The Neurodevelopmental Work Group, led by Susan Swedo, MD, senior investigator at the National Institute of Mental Health, recommended the DSM-5 criteria for ASD to be a better reflection of the state of knowledge about autism. The Work Group believes a single umbrella disorder will improve the diagnosis of ASD without limiting the sensitivity of the criteria, or substantially changing the number of children being diagnosed.

People with ASD tend to have communication deficits, such as responding inappropriately in conversa-tions, misreading nonverbal interactions, or having difficulty building friendships appropriate to their age. In addition, people with ASD may be overly dependent on routines, highly sensitive to changes in their environment, or intensely focused on inappropriate items. Again, the symptoms of people with ASD will fall on a continuum, with some individuals showing mild symptoms and others having much more severe symptoms. This spectrum will allow clinicians to account for the variations in symptoms and behaviors from person to person.

Under the DSM-5 criteria, individuals with ASD must show symptoms from early childhood, even if those symptoms are not recognized until later. This criteria change encourages earlier diagnosis of ASD but also allows people whose symptoms may not be fully recognized until social demands exceed their capacity to receive the diagnosis. It is an important change from DSM-IV criteria, which was geared toward identifying school-aged children with autism-related disorders, but not as useful in diagnosing younger children.

The DSM-5 criteria were tested in real-life clinical settings as part of DSM-5 field trials, and analysis from that testing indicated that there will be no significant changes in the prevalence of the disorder. More recently, the largest and most up-to-date study, published by Huerta, et al, in the October 2012 issue of American Journal of Psychiatry, provided the most comprehensive assessment of the DSM-5 criteria for ASD based on symptom extraction from previously collected data. The study found that DSM-5 criteria identified 91 percent of children with clinical DSM-IV PDD diagnoses, suggesting that

most children with DSM-IV PDD diagnoses will retain their diagnosis of ASD using the new criteria. Sev-eral other studies, using various methodologies, have been inconsistent in their findings.(DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder fact sheet, 2013).

American Psychiatric Association (2013). Autism Spectrum Disorder, DSM-5 Collection, retrieved from: www.psychiatry.org.

What is the historical importance of these tribes?

Discuss at least 3 aspects of Passamaquoddy and Wampanoag life, such as: Pre-Colonial type of clothing, homes, lifestyle, important events, people, modern life, court cases with the U.S. government

Compare and contrast the two tribes.

Write an essay on what can be done to assist teenager in maintaining a healthy lifestyle?

Reflect upon a patient care encounter from personal practice in which principles from Barbara Carper’s theory of “Ways of Knowing” were used. Illustrate how each fundamental pattern for nursing knowledge contributed to the care of this patient.
Select a particular area of nursing that is of interest to you. Elaborate on the specifics of nursing research in relation to this area— what can be accomplished by it, and why you believe it to be valuable. Include an explanation of the following questions in your response.
What role does nursing research play in the development of applied medicine?
What are the best methods for conducting such research? Include specific topics you will cover, and how this relates to your literature review.
How do you know whether a topic qualifies as research worthy? What criteria make a topic acceptable for research?

Complete both case studies:

1. Apply Guido’s MORAL model to resolve the dilemma presented in the case study described in EXERCISE 4–3 (Guido textbook). How might the nurses in this scenario respond to the physician’s request? How would this scenario begin to cause moral distress among the nursing staff, and what are the positive actions that the nurses might begin to take to prevent moral distress?

2. Read the case study entitled You be the Ethicist, presented at the end of Chapter 3 (Guido textbook). What are the compelling rights that this case addresses? Whose rights should take precedence? Does a child (specifically this competent 14-year-old) have the right to determine what will happen to him? Should he ethically have this right? How would you have decided the outcome if his disease state had not intervened? Now, examine the scenario from the perspective of health care policy. How would you begin to evaluate the need for the policy and the possible support or lack of support for the policy from your peers, nursing management, and others who might be affected by the policy? Do the 10 framework questions outlined by Malone in chapter 4 (Guido textbook) assist in this process? Create a process proposal for the organization with possible guidelines, procedures, and policies to address the issues you have identified.

Given what you’ve read, briefly describe the main differences between the 3 concepts of the moral domain – justice, care, and virtue.
Identify and discuss an example of how moral judgment and justification can vary across culture