• Choose a health issue to work with

• Rise of autism in US children

• The prevalence of autism in US children when they are raised in a low poverty
household?

• Choose a target population

• Children in low poverty areas in the US

• Find some good research articles about your health issue/target population

• Google scholar

• UNE Libraries

• Scan the articles and have them handy for next week’s class

Problem Statement:

- What is occurring
o More rates of autism in demographics with higher poverty levels
- What should be occurring (with the health problem):
o Having low rates of autism across different demographics
o Having elevated levels of detection of autism and resources for detection across various
demographics
- What could happen if problem not addressed: (complications/how might the problem get
worse? Costs to society?)