Population Health Improvement Plan
The optional Evidence-Based Population Health Improvement Plan Presentation Template [PPTX] is provided to help you prepare your slides. If you choose to work without the template, consider referring to Creating a Presentation: A Guide to Writing and Speaking and Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations.
The suggested headings for your presentation are:
- Community Data Evaluation.
- Meeting Community Needs.
- Measuring Outcomes.
- Communication Plan.
- Evidence.
- Evaluate the environmental and epidemiological data about your community to determine a population-focused priority for care.
- Identify the relevant data. This can be communicated in a table or chart.
- Describe the major population health issue suggested by the data within your community.
- Explain how environmental factors affect the health of community residents.
- Identify the level of evidence, validity, and reliability for each source.
- Explain what evidence in the current literature (published within the last five years) supports your evaluation of the data and the population focused priority of care you have selected.
- Develop an ethical health improvement plan with outcome criteria that addresses the population health priority that you identified in your evaluation.
- Consider the environmental realities and challenges existing in the community.
- Include interventions that will meet community needs.
- Address potential barriers or misunderstandings related to various cultures prevalent in the community.
- Propose criteria that can be used to evaluate the achievement of the plan’s outcomes for your population health improvement.
- Explain why your proposed criteria are appropriate and useful measures of success.
- Explain a plan to collaborate with a specific community organization to support the implementation of the population health improvement in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way.
- Identify the community stakeholders that are relevant to your Population Health Improvement Plan.
- Develop a clear communication strategy that is mindful of the cultural and ethical expectations of colleagues and community members regarding data privacy.
- Ensure that your strategy enables you to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to members of the community regardless of disabilities, language, or level of education.
- Explain the value and relevance of the evidence and technology resources used as the basis of a population health improvement plan.
- Explain why the evidence is valuable and relevant to the community health concern you are addressing.
- Explain why each piece of evidence is appropriate and informs the goal of improving the health of the community.
- Communicate the Evidence-Based Population Health Improvement Plan in a professional, effective manner that engages the community organization stakeholders and the community-at-large to implement and sustain change.
- What specific actions can the community stakeholders take themselves to build a feeling of community ownership in your plan?