Week 3 Paper Assignment – (30 Points) VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW
There is ONE paper assignment for this course that is due in Week 3. It is worth 30 points maximum and has a suggested minimum 2500-word limit, including quotations, excluding abstract and references. Students complete this assignment by doing the following:
• View the following lecture by the public health researcher, Richard Wilkinson: Lecture by Richard Wilkinson. (A transcript for this talk is available.)
• Offer what you see as the three most compelling things you learned from this lecture and explain how these things inform your understanding of relationships between justice and healthcare.
• Wilkinson does not talk explicitly about specific kinds of inequalities in healthcare, such as (a) racial and ethnic inequalities in access to healthcare and (b) health status inequalities suffered by people with mental illnesses, which are two inequalities we study in this course. Suppose you could add content to his lecture on these two kinds of inequalities. Present three major concepts or ideas from the readings in this course and explain how you would use these three concepts to augment Wilkinson’s lecture about (a) racial and ethnic inequalities in access to healthcare and (b) health status inequalities suffered by people with mental illnesses.
• Reasons/evidence and arguments should support (justify) all positions or statements. Generalizations and assertions without justification (e.g., reasons, evidence, or argument) are discouraged and will negatively affect grades.
• Follow APA criteria for quotes, citations, references, pagination, etc. Access the APA manual from MHE 600 or online resources.
• Carefully review the following paper evaluation criteria.
• Direct quotes should make up no more than 20% of your paper.
• Include a word count at the end of the paper
• Submit the paper by the date listed in the Course Site.
• Papers will be evaluated according to the criteria outlined in APPENDIX B – Paper Grading Rubric.