Week 3 Assignment: Community Strategic Plan: Part A Outline
Details:
For this assignment, identify an area of focus in community health within your community. Using Gordon’s functional health patterns framework in your e-text, assess the health risks in your community.
In your community assessment outline, include the following:
- Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings.
- Refer to Table 6.2: Examples of community strengths and concerns and assess the strengths and concerns of your community.
- Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstorm ways of addressing these barriers.
Findings from your assessment may include the following:
- Using prenatal and infancy home visits to prevent child abuse and neglect
- Preventing
- Falls in the elderly
- Risky sexual behavior among youth and young adults
- Improving vaccination rates
- Reducing
- Population salt intake
- Tobacco use among adults
- Drug experimentation among young adults
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Physical abuse among partners