Module 1 – CASE
MHS 529 CA 1: Introduction to Housing
For the first Case Assignment, you are to write an essay addressing the following tasks. First, identify a specific historical event that had an effect on public health with respect to housing. Explain how that event related to at least one of the basic principles of Healthy Housing. Considering current issues of housing and health in the United States, argue whether the historical issue is still relevant in a public health sense today. Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources to support your position.
Be sure to support your paper with references from the literature and to cite the references in the body of your discussion as well as the end of the paper.
Assignment Expectations
Use information from the modular background readings as well as any good quality resource you can find.
LENGTH: 3 pages typed and double-spaced, in addition to a cover page.
The following items will be assessed in particular:
Precision: Each of the questions of the assignment is specifically addressed in the paper. The paper describes your role as Industrial Hygienist in the protection of workers in a facility where textiles and clothes are manufactured, and the role that OSHA inspectors play in protecting workers from hazards on the job. The paper takes into account that the working population is mostly female immigrant workers in their 20s, with lacking or limited English speaking/reading ability. The paper analyzes the particular challenges that this working population presents to you in your attempts to follow the laws of Hazard Communication. The paper describes how to monitor the health of these employees over the time.
