Purpose: to identify and critically analyse a published case study describing a significant public health issue. Task: Critically appraise a public health journal article of significance....

Purpose: to identify and critically analyse a published case study describing a significant public health issue. Task: Critically appraise a public health journal article of significance. Instructions: Identify an article of interest that discusses a significant public health issue. The issue selected can be related to any aspect of public health (ie problem focused, solution focused, practice focused, or theoretical focused). Answer each question in the section below on critical reading, as it applies to the article you have selected. Critical reading What is critical reading? Critical reading is the process of reading that goes beyond just understanding a text and involves: carefully considering and evaluating the reading identifying the reading's strengths and implications identifying the reading's weaknesses and flaws looking at the 'big picture' and deciding how the reading fits into the greater academic context (the understandings presented in other books and articles on this topic) Critically identify, evaluate, and respond to an author's ideas, by addressing the following: What is the article's background and purpose? What is the main idea (the main argument) that the article is communicating? Evaluate: How convincing is the argument? What does the argument assume? How useful or applicable is the article? How does the article compare with other current theory and research? Respond: What is your assessment of the article? What issues does it raise? What issues does it avoid?