Community Strategic Plan: Part A Outline

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