Description
For this assignment, you will research and prepare a community-level strategic plan that addresses a key public health issue.
Potential topics may include:
• Using prenatal and infancy home visits to prevent child abuse and neglect
• Preventing falls in the elderly
• Reducing population salt intake
• Reducing tobacco use among adults
• Preventing risky sexual behavior among youth and young adults
• Reducing drug experimentation among young adults
Include the following in your paper:
Introduction:
Provide an overview of the community health issue as described in Part A with identified causes and influences, including knowledge gaps.
Detail the prevalence of the issue inside and outside the United States.
Describe potential monetary costs associated with the issue in the United States.
You must include data as part of your introduction (images, charts, graphs, etc., may be included as well as written data).
Describe advance practice roles and management strategies that affect change at the community level.
Identify key community and social resources that negatively and positively affect the selected issue.
Identify changes or enhancements in community-related services for your selected topic.
Develop a strategic plan that could decrease the prevalence of your selected topic.The goals for this plan needs to be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound. Include how your plan takes into consideration health literacy, socioeconomic factors, and cultural differences.
Conclusion:
A summary of the goals and challenges
An assessment of the outlook for action/progress
Appendix A: Include your community assessment from Week 3 as Appendix A.
Your paper should be 3–5 pages in length (not including the cover or reference pages). Use APA throughout.
Include 2–3 scholarly sources that are carefully selected and appropriate to the topic. References should be current—no more than four years old.
Part A of this assignment will be included as a file 🙂
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Running Head: COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT
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Health is a core concept in every society. The ideas of health show how nurses,
physicians and other health care providers view health and the possible risks. Risks in this
context refer to the possible challenges that continue to threaten the overall realization of better
health in the society (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014). In my society, the main health risk
that has been identified is possibility of increased level of obesity among the young generation.
Over the past years, the number of children taking junk foods has increased hence promoting the
possibility of such risk. As a result, the paper will explore the risk, resources as well as the
challenges that continue to affect the limitation of such risk.
Resources in the Community
Running Head: COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT
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Health assessment is one of the best ways of promoting a healthy living standard in the
society. The strategies and resources that are used in this context majorly aims to identify the
abnormalities that exist and the possible strategies that may be used to correct the challenge. The
resources that may be included to help in determining the increased risk of obesity include the
data from health care institution, the children and the secondary data that have been recorded on
the health challenge. The use of the above resources will be able to help in showing the gaps that
exist in the society.
The strengths and concerns of the community
The major concern of the member of the society includes the need of promoting rolerelationship pattern. In most cases, parents who subject their children to use the junk foods
usually long to make their children feel that they are rich enough to buy some of the meals in the
market. Even though this is strength as it continues to show that the parents are wealthy enough,
it continues to pose a major challenge to the entire society as it promotes the overall development
of obesity and other related conditions such as cardiovascular diseases (Edelman, Kudzma, &
Mandle, 2014).
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The other concern of the society is the self-concept pattern. In most cases, the obese
children in the society often feel odd and are blamed for the increased body weight. This has
resulted in increased level of intimidation among these children. On the other hand, the process
has continued to result in social and psychological challenge among the affected individuals.
Nevertheless, there is a possibility of rectifying the challenge and making these children to feel
as part of the society.
Potential Barriers to Implementing the Community Health Assessment Plan
There are quite a number of barriers that have been identified to limit the entire
assessment program. First, the limited resources in terms of financial capacity of the nurses that
is required to facilitate in the collection of the required data. On the other hand, lack of the
required skills among the nurses that are required to collect the data may affect the quality of the
data collected. Finally, lack of cooperation between the various stakeholders that are required to
help in achieving the results may be challenging. Nevertheless, all these challenges may be
limited and the entire process achieved in the best way possible.
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Reference:
Edelman, C., Kudzma, E. C., & Mandle, C. L. (2014). Health promotion throughout the life span
(8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.
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