In a single opening paragraph, briefly summarize the author’s argument.

Essay Assignment Instructions

Overview

For each paper, you will write a 3–5-page research-based paper in current APA format that focuses on topics that are relevant to the course content. Each essay must include 5–7 citations in addition to the course textbook and the Bible.

Instructions

• Treat each paper as a research paper rather than an opinion piece.
• Papers must be 3-5 pages in length, using 1” margins and Times New Roman 12 font
• APA formatting must be used. Please refer to Liberty’s APA Reference Guide.
• Five to seven scholarly sources must be used. All sources used in the paper must be properly cited and referenced. This includes:
  • In-text citations for all presentations of facts, statistics, information, and examples presented using the author/date (author date, page number) format.
  • A Reference List or Bibliography, on a separate page, at the end of the paper is required.
  • In addition to using assigned course content, use external scholarly sources. Acceptable sources include peer-reviewed journal articles and online sources with URLS that include .gov, .edu, or .org.
  • Note: the integration of biblical material is warmly welcomed but is not to be used in place of course text material or external scholarly source requirements.
• When writing each paper, be sure to integrate material (cited and referenced) from all of the readings assigned for that Module: Week. This demonstrates that you read, understood, and are able to apply the materials. Moreover, it is a graded component for each paper.
• Refer to the grading rubric to ensure that all graded components are included in your paper.

Paper 1: Analyzing Theory and Grand Strategy

Complete the following instructions and note:

• In a single opening paragraph, briefly summarize the author’s argument. The short abstract provided at the beginning of each article already does this, but do not copy and paste it, since it must flow with the overall tenor of your own style and argument.

In the next section of the essay, offer a concise defense of the argument. Why is it at least plausible? There is always something rationally defensible about a peer-reviewed journal article on US foreign policy.

evaluate the reaction of the company’s share price to financial news and to the index.

Instructions

You are an investment manager, and your client would like to invest her/his money in a company that has listed shares on major stock exchanges. You are required to write a report on the company that the client is interested in investing in. You may assume that the client has an understanding of the risk involved in investing in shares.

You will be allocated a publicly listed company. You are expected to produce an investment report and recommendation on the shares of this company. This should include the following sections.

• Company profile: a single paragraph giving an overview of the company summarising its performance over the last twelve months, its products and the markets in which it operates. The remainder of the first page would summarise data on price performance and valuations. It would end with your recommendation on whether to buy, sell or hold the shares in the company.
• Performance and news analysis: Compare the company’s returns with that of the market as well as calculating the company’s risk adjusted return Identify news (which include earnings announcements, release of relevant economic data, analysts’ recommendations) which are relevant to the firm’s price performance as well as supporting your analysis in the report.
• Valuation: Perform a multistage growth dividend discount model (DDM) using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to calculate the cost of equity. Use Price multiples such as PE (Price to earnings), PB (Price to Book) and PS (Price to Sales) and DY (Dividend Yield) metrics to complement the DDM valuation. The valuation results are to be presented using the security market line (SML). Finally, a discussion on the DDM versus price multiples to inform the client is required.

Conclusion: This will demonstrate your understanding of the subject and ability to include the results in a coherent summary

Assessment aims:

• To think critically and examine the investment in question from a number of perspectives, and concepts, and present good arguments.
• To write a professional report and communicate with clarity and coherence.
• To apply theoretical concepts studied throughout the module .
• To evaluate the reaction of the company’s share price to financial news and to the index.
• To apply DDM and price multiples valuation methods.
• To develop skills using available financial software, including but not limited to Fame and Bloomberg, to synthesise and evaluate investment information.(The use of Bloomberg system is not compulsory and all the information is available from a range of financial databases)
• To be able to evaluate companies’ performance and to propose recommendations.

Provide a clear argument, supported by an evidence base from the literature, for any changes or innovations that would be relevant to support more effective prevention and control measures.

RECOMMENDATIONS/CHANGES: Provide a clear argument, supported by an evidence base from the literature, for any changes or innovations that would be relevant to support more effective prevention and control measures. These discussions can be drawn from experiences of countries managing the disease, identifying more effective strategies and interventions in the prevention, management and control.

USEFUL RESOURCES: 

http://www.one.org/international/
https://www.gov.uk/topic/health-protection/infectious-diseases
http://www.who.int/en/
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Pages/hub.aspx
http://www.cdc.gov/
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/
http://www.healthline.com/
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shiga-toxin-producing-escherichia-coli-public-health-management

REFERENCE GUIDE

Must be referenced in Harvard style. You may also choose to use bibliographic management software such as Mendeley or Endnote but please double check your references before submission.

FURTHER GUIDE

1. Please when you identify a problem, the solution should be targeted at these 4 levels:

2. Individual level
3. Community level
4. Organisational level
5. Policy making level

You should as well talk about primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention.

1. Think about how to promote behaviour change. Consider using any of the theories of behavioural change such as health belief model or theory of planned behaviour

Explore the current legislation concerning this disease (in the country/nationally) and consider its impact on current prevalence.

Assignment Part 2: (800 words)

CRITICAL REFLECTION: Explore the current legislation concerning this disease (in the country/nationally) and consider its impact on current prevalence. Here you should also be considering the biological, social and environmental factors determining the rates of infectious disease and specific impacts of the disease upon vulnerable population groups, community infrastructures, local/national economy etc.

Carry out an Exploration of Tuberculosis in Nigeria and its public health challenges

ASSIGNMENT TOPIC: Exploration of Tuberculosis in Nigeria and its public health challenges

ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES

PART 1 (1300 WORDS}

DISEASE HISTORY & CHOICE OF COUNTRY: Your choice of disease needs to be related to your choice of country, either a previous epidemic, endemic or emerging disease. 

DISEASE PREVALENCE: Please ensure that your discussion in Part 1  includes examples of the following information, and is clearly presented with illustrations, tables and figures as required 

• Demography – country/population

• Epidemiology of the disease

• Clinical Features

• Laboratory Confirmation

• Transmission

• Pathogenesis

PREVENTION AND CONTROL: An exploration of the prevention and control measures used in the country including the following issues:

• Prevention

• Surveillance

• Response to a case

• Response to a cluster

• Control of an outbreak

• Communication of risk

Based on the management and business philosophy which defines the company’s consideration of and relation to its stakeholders’ values, describe the translation of corporate governance into effective management and efficient processes.

Integration Mechanisms

Extracted from: Integrated Management Concept, Wikipedia, 2021.

Discussions and consultations on the scope of the project, schedule and the composition of the Project Team, were conducted with the stakeholders (Table 3). All stakeholders understood the necessity and benefits of this project since the impressions of the two fatal accidents which involved lifting operations in 2019 were still in their minds. A good mix of enthusiastic representatives formed the strong project team with the HSE Manager’s suggestion to include the subcontractors. The project team also has subject matter experts in risk management, lifting operations and tower crane operations on hand to provide guidance. All appointments in the project team and RA team has a leader and deputy in place, and all trainings have a primary and secondary trainer as back-up to ensure the smooth running of the project.

Synthesise and demonstrate skills and competencies required for successful integrated management

Synthesise and demonstrate skills and competencies required for successful integrated management

For this learning outcome, we adopted the Integrated Management Concept that Knut Bleicher developed (Wikipedia, 2021) as this concept encompasses the dimensions and mechanism that are appropriate for our project (Table 1 and Table 2).

Table 1 – Dimensions of Management

Extracted from: Integrated Management Concept, Wikipedia, 2021.

develop a community-based work to support preventive interventions aiming to decrease the number of pregnancies and abortions.

The demographic targets of this project are:

• To spread awareness on emergency contraception amongst young girls and woman aged 16 to 24.

• To provide the service to girls and woman from any ethnicity.

• To provide the service to 480 girl and young woman in a year.

• To focus in the area with high incidence of unintended pregnancies, abortions, and repeated abortions.

• To prioritise people from unprivileged and vulnerable backgrounds.

Service users perspective in regards to EC are:

• There is a lack of awareness on the most effective emergency contraception methods and where to obtain (EC).

• Sexual health services and professionals not informing young girls and woman correctly about the full range of contraceptives,

including emergency contraception and which one is more effective (RCOG, 2017).

• Some community pharmacies charging up to £35 for emergency contraception when it should be provided free of charge.

However, most women end up buying (EC) from pharmacies (RCOG, 2017).

• The need of more information about emergency contraception delivered face-to-face using the spoken method and advertised

through written materials, as most information available are either online or through telephone.

• Feeling of fear, judgment and embarrassment when looking for information or services on emergency contraception.

The goals of this proposal are:

• To implement an alternative community-based service.

• To provide a youth friendly service.

• To promote advertising of the project in the local newspaper and in the radio.

• To support public health system and NHS by maximizing services and saving costs.

• To provide safe, effective and evidence-based information through an integrated care model.

• To develop a community-based work to support preventive interventions aiming to decrease the number of pregnancies and

abortions.

Write a Proposal to request funding for the implementation of a community-based sexual health educational project in the borough of Croydon to support girls and young women between 15-24 to gain awareness and knowledge of the most effective emergency contraception method.

Proposal to request funding for the implementation of a community-based sexual health educational project in the

borough of Croydon to support girls and young women between 15-24 to gain awareness and knowledge of the most

effective emergency contraception method.

• Support self-care interventions by promoting awareness of the most effective emergency contraception methods and

efficacy by using verbal, written and digital information.

• Focus on primary prevention by implementing a co-ordinated approach across primary care and community, thus,

improving integrated service responses

• Work alongside young people to develop their sense of empowerment and responsibility in relation to sexual health

allowing them to make sensible decisions.

• Deliver structured and accessible services aiming to reduce healthcare inequalities.

This business case aims to support awareness of the most effective emergency contraception by creating a communitybased

group to deliver planned education to girls and young women aged between 15-24.

Croydon has the highest population in London, accounting for an estimated number of 44,400 people aged between 15-24

which 55% are from black and minority ethnic group. It also shows that repeated abortions amongst under 25 years old is

also (36.5%) higher than London. Current statistics also underlines that in Croydon, teenage pregnancies are mostly

frequent in female subjects under 18 years (32.5 per 1,000); in comparison to London with the rate of (21.8 per 1,000) and

England presenting rates of (24.3 per 1,000) (Healthwatch, 2017).

• The proposal aims at requesting £14,000,00 to fund the implementation of the project for the period of a year.

• The budget will cover the recruitment of sexual health specialist nurses, pharmacists, venues, and to also cover

expenses related to advertisement.

• The project will be able to accommodate 15 service users, once a week on Saturdays for 1 hour for 12 months.

• Support and promote integration between primary care and community hubs to advance quality care as well as

support sexual health interventions and services.

• The project will be delivered face-to-face to enhance communication and interactivity with young service users

• Promote preventive interventions aiming to decrease the number of pregnancies and abortions amongst teenage girls

and women aged 15-24

Apply strategic-thinking skills and the ability to apply module concepts to understand the situation facing your organisation, developing your own insights in the process, and then using those insights to offer your perspective on what your organisation should do and why.

1. Further instructions:

The 1500 words exclude appendices, which should not be excessive in length and should not include material that would be more properly included in the body of the report; your application of frameworks should not be presented in appendices.

Your assignment should be prepared in a report format.

This assignment specifically tests strategic-thinking skills and the ability to apply module concepts to understand the situation facing your organisation, developing your own insights in the process, and then using those insights to offer your perspective on what your organisation should do and why. This aspect of the TM task, offering your own view on how your organisation should act, is an important measure of your ability to think strategically and construct a supported argument.

You are required to draw explicitly on relevant B873 models, concepts, and theories to support your analysis, conclusions, and recommendations. If you introduce relevant material from outside of the module, reference them correctly.

Concepts to be used in the report:

1. for external environmental analysis: including PESTEL analysis and the VUCA framework.
2. Industry environment: including five Force Model, strategic groups (important for biopharma companies).
3. Reference should include some of these (but not limited) :

Frynas, J.G. and Mellahi, K. (2014) Global strategic management. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Guedri, Z. and McGuire, J. (2011) ‘Multimarket competition, mobility barriers, and firm performance, Journal of Management Studies, 48(4), pp. 857–890.

Henry, A.E. (2018) Understanding strategic management. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.