University of the People HS 3814 Community Health Discussion Forum Unit 2 - "Second Academic Year 2023-2024 Term: 5. Instructor: Luana Santos July 1, 2024 Introduction Community health initiatives are vital for addressing public health issues and enhancing the overall health of communities. King et al. (2016) identify several important objectives crucial for the success of these initiatives, including Objective 2 – the collaborative approach, which highlights the participation of all stakeholders in community engagement. This objective emphasizes the collective effort required to attain lasting health improvements. I plan to delve deeper into this subject for my upcoming Unit 2 discussion forum assignment. The Role of Aim 2 – …show more content…
Other goals might mainly look at specific health outcomes, using data and technology, or deciding how to use resources (Kruk et al., 2018). While these goals are essential, they often follow a top-down approach, where experts or people in charge make decisions. On the other hand, Aim 2 ensures that the community receives health programs and actively helps create and put them in place (Hussey, 2021). This way of working together can result in health solutions that are better suited and more widely accepted, as it makes use of local knowledge and builds trust among everyone …show more content…
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As a public health worker, I envision myself within the context of community organizing in a nonprofit organization setting. Community organizing in such a setting would require tactics that focus on empowerment to address inequity, community-based participatory research to evaluate the organizing process and address power dynamics related to differences, and an ...
Explain the relationship between factors and affecting health and wellbeing Heath care practitioners will research the links between certain public health issues and possible causes, triggers or individuals lifestyle choices for example smoking or eating a high cholesterol diet. They do this to be able to advise individuals and prevent them from getting the illness or to find ways on how to treat the illness because they have gained a better understanding of where it comes from. For example researchers found that there was a link between elderly people being susceptible to the flu because their immune system was weaker, to prevent them from getting the virus they would have been immunised and keep away from possibly being exposed to the virus.
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Healthy People 2020 is a program for the promotion of health and the prevention of diseases, launched by the Department of Health and Human Services in December 2010. According to healthypeople.gov, this program has four overarching goals which are first to achieve healthy, longer lives free of preventable diseases, injuries, and premature deaths; to achieve health fairness, eliminate differences, and improve all groups’ health; also to produce social and physical environments that encourage good health; and last but not least to promote life’s quality, healthy development, and healthy behaviors through all life stages. This program has a vision of a community where people live long, healthy lives. Healthy People 2020 offers a comprehensive set of 10 years of nationwide goals and objectives that is meant to improve the health of the American population. Healthy People 2020 covers 42 topic areas with approximately 600 objectives, which include 1,200 measures. A smaller set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, has been designated to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them, this objectives are called Leading Health Indicators. The program goes above and beyond these health indicators in order to provide the best care for the people of this country. These indictors cover from the access of health service, nutrition, physical activity, and obesity to substance abuse, environmental quality, injury and violence.
In conclusion, we can agree from the above information that quality of life is significant in each of the goals discussed. However, the Healthy People 2020 goals and objectives must serve as a guide to boost national health promotion and disease prevention that will not only reduce disparities but also eliminate disparities. Both the federal and state governments, public and private health sectors will no doubt partner and focus in these objectives. It is, therefore, very imperative that necessary tools and strategic managements is used to focus on health equity to improve the health of all groups, create social and physical environment that promote good health, promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behavior across life stages that will benefit all by the year 2020.
Most of the populations of Carteret are middleclass families. The median household income is $60.353.There is decent public schools and a private school in my town. The reputation of the public schools is not so good and parents prefer to send their kids to private schools in town. The percentage of high graduates is 83.8% and as to state is 88.1%. The college bachelor’s degree and higher degree is 21.2% compare it to 35.8 % of
A community can be defined as a group of people, who live, learn, work and play in an environment at a given time. (Yiu, 2012, p.213) There are many factors that may influence the community’s development and health status. These can include resources available, accessibility, transportation, safety, community needs etc… These influences may combine together to form community strengths and as well as community challenges or weaknesses. As a community health care nurse, it is significant for us to assess and identify these strengths and challenges within the community in order for us to intervene and provide the appropriate needed health care services for the community members. This individual scholarly paper will explore and focus on one challenge issue identified from our group community assessment.
Healthy People 2020 is an initiation of health programs for the population launched by the Department of Health and Human Services in December 2010.It’s a program that aids in the prevention and promotion of the four Goals – 1. Health 2. Preventative Care 3. Safety from injuries and 4. Premature diseases. A vision to improve all groups, ethnicities and classification free of diseases. A healthy approach to achieve, improve and eliminate differences and improve the social, mental and physical environments with better health quality development and healthy environments through all life stages. Healthy people 2020 has been designed to improve the health of the American Population to provide the best care accessible where almost 1 in 4 Americans don’t have health insurance or a primary care provider to get regular health check-ups. Healthy people 2020 program is renewed with new measures and objectives to understand and communicate with population needs.
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By using the healthy people 2020 initiatives as a guide, communities may initiate their own improvement changes to enhance their overall wellbeing. The objectives of this community preventative health improvement plan directly correlate with the nation’s healthy people 2020 initiatives. Healthy People 2020 aims to improve population health by using electronic health to enhance communication strategies (Healthy People 2020, 2015). The nation’s government and health care officials acknowledge the impact that communication, information, and technology have on the population’s everyday life. Therefore, healthy people 2020 aims to utilize information technology to communicate information essential to initiating healthy practices (Healthy People 2020, 2015). Healthy people 2020 guidelines should be utilized when initiating electronic health systems, supporting collaboration between patients and providers and increasing the availability of support
Advocacy in Population Health One only has to look back at the history of nursing to see why advocacy in the area of health for the population is so important. Florence Nightingale fought for change in nursing. Her advocacy for improving health care ultimately changed how nurses were viewed in our country and in the world. She knew that advocating change in the health care system was the only way to improve it. According to Mislead (2016), Involvement in policy decisions and political process is an integral part of the nursing role because of our history, practice, education, and professional organizations.
In week five we discussed program planning and management and why public health core functions are a critical factor in implementing community initiatives. “The essential functions of public health include assessment, policy development, and assurance” (Chamberlain, 2018, p. 1). In order to have community programs and initiatives, there must be an evaluation of the community in its current state. The second step would be the “development of plans and policies to address prioritization of health needs of the community”(Chamberlain, 2018, p. 4). The final step would be assurance. Assurance “evaluates effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based environmental health services” (Centers for
The five principles of HP include building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and reorienting health services (McMurray & Clendon 2015). The first principle aims to incorporate health into all public policy decisions beyond the health system so that living and working conditions become conducive to health and equity (Germov, Freij & Richmond 2015). According to McMurray & Clendon (2015), multi-sectoral collaboration is required among different sectors, such as education, industry and social welfare, with the reciprocally influential policies that guide the community health. The second principle emphasises the socio-ecological approach to health that promotes sustainable environment and broader social support systems that encourage a safe and satisfying life (Germov, Freij & Richmond 2015; McMurray & Clendon 2015). This principle requires to acknowledge the significance of conserving the physical or social resources that allow people to maintain health (McMurray & Clendon 2015). The third principle focuses on information and learning opportunities that enable communities to make knowledgeable choices for better health (McMurray & Clendon