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PUBH 8450 Community Health Assessment - Walden University
This a research paper covering "obesity in black women in the U.S." or "cardiovascular disease in black men due to health disparities." Or prevailing mental illness in the adult black community due to health disparities/poverty immunity in the US.
The assignment calls for national and international data. Local/national will be USA and International is WHO(World Health Organization). The paper is to focus on Heart Disease or Cardiovascular.
Quantitative Data and Community
Health Profiles
Reflect back on Emily from Week 4's Introduction. Her organization asks her to revise her assessment plan to include a community health profile. Emily's organization hopes to provide free or reduced-cost inoculations, so it is important to determine the prevalence of infectious diseases in the community. Emily is given the task of assembling the existing data. The team decides that it is also important to look at disease within the larger contexts of national and international data, in order to demonstrate the specific need in their local area. What quantitative data should Emily include in her community health profile?
This week, you explore existing quantitative data sources. Then, you employ them in the creation of a community health profile for your Scholar-Practitioner Project.
Learning Objective 1: Evaluate relevance of quantitative data sources
Learning Objective 2: Analyze challenges related to identifying quantitative data sources
Learning Objective 3: Analyze challenges related to determining relevance of quantitative data sources
Learning Objective 4: Synthesize quantitative data to create a community health profile
Discussion: Sources and Uses of Quantitative
Data
Fortunately for most public health professionals engaged in community health assessment, there is no need to seek all-new data in order to assess a community's public health. Most community health assessments start with available data. Great care must be taken when aggregating or comparing data sources because many challenges may arise. For example, a public health program to reduce adolescent smoking may be seeking data on local asthma rates, but the only asthma rates available may be for younger children. As a public health professional, it is essential for you to become familiar with data sources, and to evaluate data for their relevancy to the population and public health problems being assessed.
For this Discussion, review data sources included in the Resources and current literature. Then, research multiple quantitative data sources (e.g., census or local, state, and national public health agencies) that could be used for your Scholar-Practitioner Project community health assessment.
With these thoughts in mind:
Post a brief description of two quantitative data sources you might use to develop your community health profile for your community health assessment. Explain why these data sources are relevant. Finally, describe two challenges you might face in collecting these data sources and explain why.
Use the Resources and current literature to support your response. Read a selection of your colleagues' postings.
Respond to your colleagues' postings. Provide a substantive reply to your colleagues in one or more of the following ways:
- Provide a colleague with an idea for another quantitative data source that might be relevant to his or her SPP and explain why this source is relevant.
- Expand on the colleague's posting with additional insight and/or resources.
- Offer polite disagreement or critique, supported with evidence.
- Validate an idea with your own experience.
- Make a suggestion or comment that guides or facilitates the discussion.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Resources.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.
Scholar-Practitioner Project Assignment:
Community Health Profiles
As a public health professional, it is likely that you will be asked to gather quantitative data to develop a community health profile. Community health profiles include data on information such as morbidity and mortality rate, population size, and other characteristics. This information is most accurately depicted though quantitative data in a community health profile.
In this Assignment, you look at the community public health problem you identified for your Scholar-Practitioner Project in the context of similar national and international data in developing a community health profile summary.
The Assignment (3-4 pages):
Submit a 3- to 4-page community health rofile for your Scholar-Practitioner Project. Include a summary of the following:
- Recent local, state, and regional quantitative sociodemographic, morbidity, and mortality data
- Recent national or international quantitative sociodemographic, morbidity, and mortality data
- Recent local, state, and regional quantitative data related to one factor contributing to the identified problem
- The relevancy of these findings to the problem you identified
Attachment:- Practioner Project Assignment.rar