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New Topic: Nutritionist

Original topic choices were not as good as the one I just discovered... 

In further investigation, I typed in the topic nutrition. 

And noticed there are a lot of articles relating to the topic and public health. 

In more I depth, I decided to specifically focus on nutritionist. 

A nutritionist is a person who studies or is an expert at nutrition.

My research topic will be on nutritionists, and my soon developing question is going to be about what majority of research have to say about nutritionists. 

And to perhaps narrow in more on what I am going to be specifically looking for, I will look to see if nutritionists are maintaining sufficient standards and professionalism in their careers.

An article I found that I would like to use as my main source is called,

"Identification and Evaluation of Competencies of Public Health Nutritionists" 

Author: Laura S. Sims, PHD, MPH

Citation: 

Sims, L. S. (1979). Identification and evaluation of competencies of public health nutritionists. American Journal of Public Health, 69(11) 1099-1105. doi:10.2105/AJPH.69.11.1099

Link:

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.69.11.1099

Shows where I started

What the article is about

What they measured in the competency test

In 1979 no systematic study to test for competent nutritionists

Why I chose this article: 

I chose this article because it relates to my topic, has public health in the title, is from AJPH, and corresponds to my developing question. I found the article interesting because it explains the measurements of how they examined entry-level nutritionists, which is what I would like to focus on in this research project.  

Summary of the article:

The study conducted examined behavioral factors that would contribute to an "entry-level" nutritionist. Since nutritionists have a variety of roles, there are a diverse sets of skills and knowledge that is required. Among the numerous characteristics a nutritionists should obtain, the study discovered communication skills, patient/client counseling, and interpretation of scientific materials were rates as most critical in the workforce. 

Key Words frequently used in the article:

Word/ Frequency

health 91
competency 89
nutrition 89
public 67
program 41
respondent 35
practitioner 32
able 27
nutritionist 27
faculty 24
perform 24
plan 22
response 21
service 21
function 20
graduate 18
group 18
education 17
position 16
rate 16
scale 16
questionnaire 16
direct 15
analysis 15
rank 15

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.

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