Climate Change and its Impact on Infectious Diseases

Topic: Climate Change and its Impact on Infectious Diseases

Prompt: Submit a draft of your introduction to the environmental hazard you have selected. For this milestone, introduce the environmental health topic that you have chosen and explain why it is considered a hazard or threat to environmental health. Be sure to summarize the literature you used to examine your topic of choice by identifying the key points from each of the sources.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

Introduction: Choose an environmental health topic with your instructor’s approval to use as the basis for your analysis and recommendations paper.

A. Briefly introduce your chosen topic. Be sure to explain why it is considered an environmental hazard or threat to environmental health, and provide evidence to support your response.

B. Cite current literature on this environmental hazard by summarizing the articles that you selected to research your topic.

C. Assess the scientific value of each of the sources you cited. In other words, how credible do you feel each of the sources you have selected is for your research on this topic? Be sure to justify your reasoning.

D. What are the key points you drew from each of these sources, and from which section of the article or paper you culled them

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 1-to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least 3 sources cited in APA format.