Identifying Community Health Needs
What community, city, or state are you planning to use as the setting for your assessment?
Where can you obtain population and community health data for this setting?
How will you obtain data?
What are the different populations in your chosen setting? (Think about cultural, economic, racial, and spiritual perspectives.)
How are the needs of the diverse populations in your setting similar and different?
What are some of the most critical health care needs of your chosen setting?
Are any specific populations more impacted by these needs than others?
What are the basic concepts of health promotion and disease prevention?
How might the populations in your chosen setting be best impacted in a positive way by specific health promotion and disease prevention approaches?
How could you apply specific health promotion and disease prevention strategies to drive improvements related to a specific health care need?
What factors are most likely to affect health promotion and wellness for vulnerable and diverse populations?
How does interpersonal collaboration between health care professionals advance health promotion with the vulnerable and diverse populations?