Melanoma in Summit County, UT

Examine the chronic disease prevention strategies listed on the CDCs National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) website. Identify a chronic disease (melanoma) that affects your community or any community of your choice (Summit County, UT). Write a journal assignment about how this issue affects your chosen community. Consider how a community could use the NCCDPHP strategies to address the topic. Include data/descriptive statistics from the chronic disease data reports and resources from the NCCDPHP website or your communitys health department to explain how this issue impacts the community (for example, morbidity/mortality reports, community health assessments, and demographic profiles of your community).

• Describe how the chosen issue impacts the community.
• Apply the CDCs NCCDPHP strategies to the health issue.
• Utilize data from local health department websites.