SU PHE5010 Week 4 Project Latest 2019 September

PHE5010 Environmental and Occupational Health

Week 4 Project

Final Project:
Landscape Paper

This week, you will
describe the landscape in which the problem exists, including the key
stakeholders in the issue and the political climate.

Stakeholders in a
health services problem include:

Consumers (patients
and their families)

Clinicians
(individuals in a variety of disciplines, practice groups, and hospitals)

Payers (insurers)

Businesses (e.g.,
pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturers)

Policymakers (e.g.,
medical organizations and government)

Advocacy and education
groups (e.g., patient advocacy groups, societies devoted to a specific health
issue, such as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society or the March of Dimes).

Others

In an environmental
problem, the same general categories of stakeholders are represented, although
the members of the consumer and other groups are specific to the environmental
problem.

The political climate
can be loosely defined as the combination of past and present public stances,
often conflicting, of the key stakeholder groups as well as the prior attempts
to solve the problem.

When planning to begin
a program or to conduct an intervention to address a public problem, a certain
intervention may be effective from a technical standpoint but unpopular with stakeholders.
If stakeholders’ needs and concerns are not addressed, the program will fail on
various levels.

For this assignment:

Review the following
example of stakeholder involvement in addressing an environmental concern—the
Amchitka Island site:

A military airbase was
established on this Alaskan island during World War II and underground nuclear
bomb testing was conducted during 1965–1971 (Giblin, Stahl, & Bechtel,
2002). These events and subsequent stakeholder participation are summarized by Rutgers
University faculty members in the abstracts of several journal articles.

Using the South
University Online Library, review the following two abstracts:

Burger, J., Gochfeld,
M., & Pletnikoff, K. (2009). Collaboration

versus communication: The Department
of Energy’s

Amchitka Island and the Aleut
Community. Environmental

Research, 109(4), 503–510.

Burger, J., &
Gochfeld, M. (2009). Changes in Aleut concerns

following the stakeholder-driven
Amchitka independent

science assessment. Risk Analysis,
29(8), 1156–1169.

One of the stakeholder
involvement activities was participation in sampling of wildlife and other
biota at the site during an independent external scientific assessment of the
site by the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation
(CRESP) (access photos at
http://www.cresp.org/amchitka_photos/amchitka_phase2/apia/index.html).

An advocacy group
involved in the controversy was GreenPeace. GreenPeace was founded in 1971
during a voyage to protest nuclear weapons testing on Amchitka (accessible at
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/

about/history/amchitka-hunter/).

Write a 3- to 5-page
landscape paper in a Microsoft Word document addressing the following:

State the 2- to 3-sentence
problem statement that you submitted in Week 2.

Identify and describe
key stakeholders and the factors that must be considered when analyzing your
project’s environmental problem. Include the public, business, government, and
scientific stakeholders and, if applicable, stakeholder groups of workers and
other nations (landscape). Determine if other stakeholder groups should be
included and describe them.

Justify briefly why
each of your listed groups may be considered stakeholders. The tone of this section
should be neutral, even if you disagree with a stakeholder group’s position.

Summarize the
political landscape of your environmental problem, including public stances of
key stakeholder groups, conflicts between stakeholder groups, and past attempts
to resolve the environmental problem.

Provide and justify
your conclusions about how stakeholder groups and political issues should guide
the development of solutions to your problem.