Week 3 Epidemiology of your Community Discussion
Discuss the epidemiology of your community. Are there specific highs or lows you found interesting? Pick two of the interesting data points about your community and compare it to the state data.
Paragraph One: Discuss your community as a whole, what epidemiological groups make up the community. Identify several data points including ethnicity, vulnerable populations and health issues or anomalies within your community. Compare the data to state and national levels
Paragraph Two: Identify a health issue that you noted during your windshield survey that you find interesting either one with higher than a state or national average or one with lower than state or national average. Discuss the issue and why you think there is a disparity between data points
Paragraph Three: How will you impact the previously identified health issue and what changes would you like to implement in your community. What community resources will you utilize to facilitate the change and which other healthcare professionals will you include in your plan.
Paragraph Four: How will you measure the outcomes of the change on your community? What tools will you use to measure the change and how long do you expect it to see the changes. How will get the data and track changes? Where will you mine your data
Your initial discussion should include 2 references, 1 from the required reading and 1 from an outside REPUTIBLE source
resource 1 is from ch 5 and 26:
Nies, M.A., & McEwen, M. (2019). Community/public health Nursing: promoting the health of populations (8th ed.). Elsevier Health Sciences.
