Assessing Community Health Care Needs

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Assess the health care needs of a community and report your findings in an executive summary.

Assess Community Health Needs

Assess, via a windshield survey, the general condition and needs of a community from a public health perspective.

• What areas of the community will you include in your survey?
• What aspects of the physical environment are relevant to your survey? Why?
• What are the limitations of the survey?
• What factors would you consider in assessing risks to your safety while conducting the survey?
• What conclusions can you draw from the survey? What evidence leads you to those conclusions?

Analyze the environmental factors affecting population health in a community.

• What questions are you trying to answer?
• What health issues are of concern in the community? For example, technological, social, regulatory, political, or economic issues.
• What opportunities and threats are influencing health care providers in the community?
• What conclusions can you draw from the analysis? What evidence leads you to those conclusions?

Identify the social determinants of health in a community.

• What are the social factors that influence community health?
• What are the social factors that influence change?
• What evidence do you have to support your claims?

Summarize windshield survey and environmental analysis findings for executive leaders.

• How will you organize the data and information you have collected?
• What are the information needs and expectations of your target audience?
• What do the data and information tell you about community health needs, challenges, and opportunities?
• What are the key lessons learned from your survey and analysis?

Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

• Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
• Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.

Support assertions, arguments, propositions, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence.

• Integrate relevant and credible evidence from 3–5 peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications.
• Is your supporting evidence clear and explicit?
  • How or why does particular evidence support a claim?
  • Will your reader see the connection?
• Did you summarize, paraphrase, and quote your sources appropriately?

Submission Reminders

• Have you completed your environmental analysis and windshield survey, with supporting evidence to substantiate your conclusions?
• Have you identified the social determinants of health in the community and their effects on change? Have you provided supporting evidence?
• Is your summary of the analysis and survey findings complete and accurate?
  • Have you documented your conclusions and lessons learned?
  • Is your information clear and coherent?
  • Is your summary 2–3 pages in length, not including the title page and references page?
  • Did you proofread your writing?
• Are your assertions and conclusions well supported by 3–5 sources of relevant and credible evidence?