Ethnic minority group health status and care planning

The first four questions are descriptive and the last two are the ones that separate papers. Describe the group, its current health status, how race and ethnicity influence health for it, its disparities and nutritional challenges, and the barriers arising from culture, socioeconomics, education and sociopolitical factors — that is real work, but it is work of assembly rather than of judgement, and the marks concentrate later. Use data specific to the group rather than national averages, since a paper that cites overall US figures has not demonstrated anything about the population it chose. Be careful with question one's phrasing too: race and ethnicity influence health largely through the social conditions attached to them rather than biologically, and saying so explicitly is the difference between a sophisticated paper and one that reads as though biology explains disparity, which is a substantive error rather than a stylistic one.

Question five asks for at least one approach across the three levels of prevention — primary, secondary and tertiary — and specifies that you explain why it would be most effective given the group's unique needs. That word effective means the justification should reach for evidence rather than plausibility, and the three levels should form one coherent approach rather than three unrelated interventions. Question six then asks which cultural beliefs or practices must be considered and which cultural theory or model would best support culturally competent promotion. Name an actual model — Leininger's sunrise model, Purnell's model, Campinha-Bacote's process of cultural competence — and say what it would change about how you deliver the plan in practice, since a model that changes nothing operational has not been applied. A general commitment to respecting culture, however sincerely held, does not answer a question that asks for a model by name, however sincerely it is expressed.