Examining Health or Medical Information

Introduction

As a leader in the field in health care, it is important that you educate yourself and those who report to you on health or medical information that is not based on legitimate evidence and is questionable or inaccurate. Health care managers need to understand the types of questionable consumer health information that is out there that might affect the products and services of whatever they are involved with in their sector of the industry.

Your work on this assessment will give you practice with evaluating information and then presenting it to your team.

Scenario

Suppose you are a department manager in a health care organization. You have noticed recently that there seems to be a great deal of misinformation being circulated within the organization on a specific health or medical topic. Your department director has asked you to complete a report for the department on this misinformation.

Requirements

For this assessment, research misinformation regarding a specific health or medical topic of your choice, then write a 3 page report on your topic. The Bad Science and Health News Review.org websites linked in the Suggested Resources provide examples of topics you might choose from, but you may also use your own sources of information.

Address the following in your report:

Explain what the health or medical information is and who the intended audience is.
Identify when and where the information was published.
Evaluate the validity of the source of the information.
Explain why the information is questionable, incomplete, inaccurate, and/or false.
Analyze the negative effects on individual or population health, based on the dissemination and public acceptance of this information.
Describe how this information affects the health care industry, health care organizations, and the actions of health care leaders.
Support your work with research from at least three recent, relevant scholarly or professional resources.

Additional Requirements

Also include the following in your assessment:

Logically organized and well-written content, without errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, or mechanics.
A title page and references page.
3 pages of content, in addition to the title page and references page.
At least 3 current scholarly or professional resources.
APA format for citations and references.
Note: Refer to the Supplemental Resources link in the courseroom navigation panel for additional information on APA style and formatting.
Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced.