For this assignment, you will be working with and accessing population data at the County Health Rankings & RoadmapsLinks to an external site. This website is County Health Rankings and Roadmaps: Building a Culture of Health County by County, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/texas/data-and-resources
The detailed instructions for this assignment are in this Population Data Assignment PowerPoint. Download Population Data Assignment PowerPoint. You will also need the Examining, Analyzing, and Interpreting Population template Download Examining, Analyzing, and Interpreting Population template in order to complete this project.
To successfully complete this project it is helpful to open the PowerPoint, the County Health Rankings spreadsheet, and the template altogether and walk through the steps of the process looking at each piece of data that is mentioned.
The final product for this assignment is a completed template which should be posted to this discussion board no later than 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, May 5th. Exemplar disclaimer: Only to be utilized for this course.
Note: The final product for the final project is only the completed PowerPoint presentation. You do not need to include a completed template along with the PowerPoint. The template is there to help you structure your presentation, and you can utilize the table from the template in your slides.
Examining, analyzing, and interpreting population data
Because data applications provide data for addressing health promotion, we need to be able to utilize these data. Utilization includes the ability to examine data, observe similarities and differences, interpret data, and identify trends. In order to understand this project – you should understand what the term Population Data means.
Population data is defined as a set of individuals who share a characteristic or set of these. A population is mainly determined by geographies, such as all people in California, or all people in the United States. Demographers (people who study human populations) categorize this as the natural population.
Readings
Population Data: Definition, Classification, Estimation, and Importance
Population Data: Definition, Classification, Estimation and Importance
What Is the Role of Data Analytics in Population Health Management?
https://healthitanalytics.com/features/whatistherole-ofdataanalytics-inpopulationhealthmanagement#:~:text=The%20process%20of%20population%20health,address%20social%20determinants%20of%20health
compare your chosen county for two years, 2018 and 2019.
Grading – This project is worth 25 points
County selection and rationale – 5 pts
Demographics and comparison/contrast by county and by year – 5 pts
All rankings and Sub-rankings – comparison/contrast by county and by year – 5 pts
Measures (2) – description and comparison/contrast by county, by year – 10 pts
Implications
Inclusion of health equity
Inclusion of value and benefit of the data
