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: Community Health Assessment

Scholar-Practitioner Project

As a future public health professional, it is important that you know how to bring all of the various elements of a community health assessment together into a logical and organized whole. In your Scholar-Practitioner Project, you select a community and a public health problem in that community. You then analyze secondary data sources to complete elements of a community health assessment. The Scholar-Practitioner Project is a synthesis of the elements of a community health assessment using Discussion 2 in Week 1, the assignments in Weeks 4–9, and recommendations given by the Instructor and fellow students. The Scholar-Practitioner Project is due in Week 11.

Scholar-Practitioner Project Guidelines

(12–15 pages, not including title page and references)

Introduction: Selecting a Community

• Description of health community (Week 1)
• Explanation of a health problem in that community (Week 1)
• Explanation of the interrelationship of contributing factors relating to the problem (Week 1)
• Two potential solutions to the problem (Week 1)

You will submit a first version of this Introduction in the Week 1 Discussion 2. Incorporate Instructor feedback before resubmitting the Introduction as part of your Scholar-Practitioner Project in Week 11.

Body:

• Plan for community health assessment (Week 4)

  Submit by Day 7 a community health assessment plan (2–3 pages) for the community you selected.

• Identify stakeholders to be included in your community health assessment plan and explain why they should be involved.
• Describe the stakeholders’ potential roles and responsibilities in the assessment.
• Develop goals for the community health assessment plan and explain why you selected these goals.
• Describe three or four types of data that you might collect to further the goals of the plan, and explain why.
• Describe the methods of data collection you might use in your plan and explain why you would use them.

• Community health profiles (Week 5)

Submit by Day 7 a 3- to 4-page community health profile for your Scholar-Practitioner Project. Include a summary of the following:

oRecent local, state, and regional quantitative sociodemographic, morbidity, and mortality data

oRecent national or international quantitative sociodemographic, morbidity, and mortality data

oRecent local, state, and regional quantitative data related to one factor contributing to the identified problem

oThe relevancy of these findings to the problem you identified

• Determining relevant assets (Week 6)

  By Day 7, create an asset map that includes the following:

oDescribe the primary community assets available in your Scholar-Practitioner Project community and explain why they are relevant.

oSelect three assets you identified. Explain how you might integrate the asset into a potential community health assessment and public health promotion program that would address the problem you selected for your Scholar-Practitioner Project.

oUse Resources and current literature to support your response.

• The focus group protocol (Week 7)

Submit by Day 7 a 4- to 6-page paper outlining a focus group protocol:

• Describe a subgroup from your community (include relevant demographics such as gender, socioeconomic status, age).
• Restate the public health problem in the community health profile you created in Week 5.
• Create six questions for the focus group related to the identified public health problem (e.g., contributing factors, potential solutions, assets available to solve the problem).
• Describe methods you would use for recruiting participants and collecting and managing the data. Explain why these methods would be effective.
• Create a brief (two-paragraph) consent form that summarizes the reason for the focus group, procedures to be followed, participants’ rights, and procedures for maintaining confidentiality.

• Survey protocol (Week 8)
• Final synthesis of the problem and potential solutions

Submit by Day 7 a 4- to 5-page protocol for a survey to gather information about the problem in your Scholar-Practitioner Project. The protocol should include the following:

• A brief set of objectives for the survey
• Describe the population you would sample and explain why.
• Describe your data collection method you might use and explain why.
• Describe your data analysis method and explain why.

• Applying evidence-based solutions to the problem (Week 9):

Submit by Day 7 a 3- to 4-page paper describing the following:

• One evidence-based solution you might use to address the public health problem you identified for your Scholar-Practitioner Project community health assessment
• A rationale for your choice of this solution
• An explanation of how you could determine the feasibility of this solution
• An explanation of how this evidence-based solution might be integrated into your Scholar-Practitioner Project

Conclusion: