Worksheet-attached

Community Needs Assessments are used by health care administrators, decision makers, and policy makers to identify health inequities and to ensure that health care resources are maximized for health improvement. A Community Needs Assessment describes the health and welfare of the priority population, identifies the major health risk factors, and the top health problems, and helps to identify the next steps to address these factors.

To prepare for this Assignment

Consider the parameters of your geographic area. This is a population based project; please choose a city or county in your state – or country. You will complete and submit both sections of the Data Collection Worksheet Template provided in this week’s Learning Resources.

The Assignment

· Complete Section One of the Data Collection Worksheet Template provided in this week’s Learning Resources. The data you enter on the worksheet should be based on a city or county – plus US data. (International students may choose a region of their country and compare this data to their country’s national data)

· Compare your city (Hampton Virginia) or county data to the national data in the appropriate column. You will summarize these findings in Section Two.

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Complete Section Two.  Based on your analysis and identification of top health problems, choose one population health issue and reply to the questions/topics in this section.

· Submit the entire worksheet, which includes your data in Section One and responses to the items in Section Two.

Data Collection Worksheet Template

Name:

Statistical Information is from what City or County:

SECTION ONE: Data Collection

Demographics-Related Data

Indicators

Data from Your
Chosen Location
(City or County)

Data for US *

Data Source
(Cite appropriately)

Sampling Notes

Overall population of area of focus

Population under the age of 5

Population over the age of 65

Population of male and female

Ethnic backgrounds

Percentage of non-native speaking population/ households

Education levels

Income levels

Poverty level

HEALTH RELATED DATA

Indicators

Data from Your
Chosen Location
(City or County)

Data for US *

Data Source
(Cite appropriately)

Sampling Notes

Life expectancy

Infant mortality

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0 diseases with the highest mortality (or prevalence)

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* International students – data from your country

References:

SECTION TWO: Proposal Outline – Final Project Initiative Proposal

Write 2-3 paragraphs comparing and analyzing your city or county data with US data (or your country).

State the health issue you are choosing for your population health initiative (one – two sentences):

Explain why you chose this health issue (one – two paragraphs):

Describe your chosen population. Be specific by providing demographics to fully explain your population (provide two – three sentences to explain why these demographics are important):

List and describe three objectives you hope to accomplish with your initiative (one sentence for each objective). Use the SMART topics as a guide. (SMART – specific, measureable, actionable, reasonable, time bound)

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Describe two – three activities you will use to accomplish each of these objectives (one – two sentences for each activity).

Directions: Write the activity on the line by the number and then use space underneath the number to provide specific discussion. Please be specific in describing the activity. For example, if you want to have a 10 K race, state details about the event.

Three Activities for Objective 1

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Three Activities for Objective 2

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Three Activities for Objective 3

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