Current and Emerging Issues in Community Health
Examine many issues that fall under the domain of Community and Public Health.
The following list are some of the issues that have been prominent in the Ottawa or Canadian context in this past year:
Ottawa’s high rates of food insecurity
The housing emergency declared by the City of Ottawa
Social isolation of seniors
Changing climate of STIs (ie antibiotic resistant strains, emergence of MPXV, sex messaging
Legal issues related to HIV and consent
Social media and mental health
Legalization of marijuana edibles; emergence of psilocybin sales
Decriminalization of possession of illicit drugs
Scarcity of primary health care
Media misinformation
Global acts of violence
Climate change
Increasing rates of opioid-related deaths
Vaccine hesitancy
Accessibility as a human right
COVID-19 Pandemic
Vaping in young people
Gentrification/urbanization
Truth and Reconciliation as it relates to community based health
The above list covers broad areas with health implications. Choose your one issue to investigate, then construct your detailed focus for the synthesis.
Be very specific as to which area you are researching, reflect back to how this relates to nursing and community health. The title on your academic paper should reflect the focus of your work (not simply relisting one of the examples above).
In your paper include 5 peer reviewed resources with one resource (ideally the main one) including a Registered Nurse (RN).
