Sunderman, Rick 7/1/2015 Week 7 Assignment 1
1. A) The first website is the National League of Cities (NLC), the search for Obesity brings up several news articles and a policy action place called “Financing Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Federal Funding Sources and Other Strategies.” (Financing Childhood) Additional informational booklets and PowerPoints are also available; however the single page fact sheet does not appear. If you do dig further and visit the NLC’s Let’s Move! Page, there is a web page dedicated to “Learning the Facts” and this page has about 5 fact sheets that would better fit the definition of a fact sheet, short single page with a message regarding the initiatives and descriptions of the problem. (National League of Cities)
B) On the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), searching the term “Obesity” leads to several options including “obesity statistics”, “childhood obesity trends”, and “Childhood Obesity” legislation updates. All three have versions of a fact sheet, the statistics page offers the more traditional fact sheet, since it has a message and description of the issue …show more content…
The first “fact sheet” I’ve found regarding my policy, Primary Care Cliff Funding, is created by the National Association of Community Health Centers and is titled “Fix the Primary Care Cliff: Invest in What Works in Our Health Care System.” (Fix the Primary Care Cliff) It is a single page and covers three areas; the first being the brief overview of the problem, the second is a more targeted problem and covers what areas create the problem such as loss of grants and programs that cease to exist if the mandatory spending is not extended, and the third is the proposal on how to fix the problem. Overall it is a nice fact sheet, but very wordy. There is little white space as the page is taken up almost entirely by text. The Pros are that it is very through and the cons are bad design and too wordy, should cut down on some of the
1. A) The first website is the National League of Cities (NLC), the search for Obesity brings up several news articles and a policy action place called “Financing Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: Federal Funding Sources and Other Strategies.” (Financing Childhood) Additional informational booklets and PowerPoints are also available; however the single page fact sheet does not appear. If you do dig further and visit the NLC’s Let’s Move! Page, there is a web page dedicated to “Learning the Facts” and this page has about 5 fact sheets that would better fit the definition of a fact sheet, short single page with a message regarding the initiatives and descriptions of the problem. (National League of Cities)
B) On the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), searching the term “Obesity” leads to several options including “obesity statistics”, “childhood obesity trends”, and “Childhood Obesity” legislation updates. All three have versions of a fact sheet, the statistics page offers the more traditional fact sheet, since it has a message and description of the issue …show more content…
The first “fact sheet” I’ve found regarding my policy, Primary Care Cliff Funding, is created by the National Association of Community Health Centers and is titled “Fix the Primary Care Cliff: Invest in What Works in Our Health Care System.” (Fix the Primary Care Cliff) It is a single page and covers three areas; the first being the brief overview of the problem, the second is a more targeted problem and covers what areas create the problem such as loss of grants and programs that cease to exist if the mandatory spending is not extended, and the third is the proposal on how to fix the problem. Overall it is a nice fact sheet, but very wordy. There is little white space as the page is taken up almost entirely by text. The Pros are that it is very through and the cons are bad design and too wordy, should cut down on some of the