Topic decision

Topics I chose to consider included:

 Climate Change, Postpartum Depression, Fish Oil,Caffeine, Gun Violence, Prescription Drugs

 

I chose this screenshot because I wanted to show how I decided upon choosing my topic. After researching articles that had public health in the title and was about climate change, I discovered there are many options to choose from.




This is a screenshot I chose to use because it shows my process of me reading through the text and looking at key terms.

 

 I also considered my topic to be gun control but kept doing research to compare what the option was to choose from.

 

Then I looked at postpartum, caffeine, fish oil and found little research. I then typed in prescription drugs and found this topic to have a lot of options. I browsed through the article "Overdose Epidemic, Prescription Monitoring Programs, and Public Health: A Review of State Laws" by Davis, Corey S; Johnston, Jull E; Pierce, Mattheww W from American Journal of Public Health written in Nov 2015. The subject's key terms from the article I selected include drug overdose, patient safety, research, prevention, public health, law enforcement, narcotics, health promotion, state laws, and prescription drugs.

 

 And then I looked for related articles about the subject matter in the search requests. This topic appears to be popular. The articles APA citation is: Davis, C. S., Johnston, J. E., & Pierce, M. W. (2015). Overdose epidemic, prescription monitoring programs, and public health: A review of state laws. American Journal of Public Health, 105(11), E9-E11. Retrieved from http://unr.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1723083942?accountid=452 The article's summary is about prescriptio monitoring programs and state-level databases are collecting patient-specific prescripiton information at the time medications are dispensed which have been considered a suggestion tool to address the overdose epidemic. I then researched overdose, and overdoes epidemic.

 

I noticed overdose epidemic is well written about and there are a few options to choose from. I selected the article "Critical Opportunities for Public Health Law: A Call for Action" written by Mello, Michelle M, Wood, Jennifer, Burris, Scott, JD; Wagenaar, Alexander C, Ibrahim, Jennifer K. The APA citation is: Mello, Michelle M, JD,PhD., M.Phil, Wood, J., PhD., Burris, S., J.D., Wagenaar, A. C., PhD., Ibrahim, Jennifer K,PhD., M.P.H., & Swanson, Jeffrey W,PhD., M.A. (2013). Critical opportunities for public health law: A call for action. American Journal of Public Health, 103(11), 1979-1988. Retrieved from http://unr.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1448191019?accountid=452 The summary of the article is about The Centers for Disease Control advocates that failure to capture lawmaker's attention, information gaps, and opposition from industry, are what is effecting the powerful legal interventions from taking place. It discusses how it is plausibly amenable to change through law. These two articles correlate to my topic in such that there is a prescription problem and both articles discuss what action is taking place to prevent the epidemic.


 

 This last screenshot shows where I left off.