My idea of a healthy community would be that of a place where health promotion is pushed by creating a suitable environment for the wellness of everyone. There is much that can be done to create healthy communities. Communities that support people in making healthy choices help prevent chronic diseases and the complications that can result from them. Public health works with a variety of partners to create healthy communities including transportation planners‚ city planners and land use experts because
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Community Assessment Nikki Shannon Johnston Walden University NURS:4011‚ Section 07‚ Family‚ Community‚ and Population-Based Care February 13‚ 2014 COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT 2 Community Assessment Community assessment is a core function for the public health nurse and involves getting to know the community. It involves identifying the needs of the community‚ problems
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Independent Field Study Community Diagnosis in Public Health Question 1: What do you mean by “Community” or Write down the definition of Community? Answer: A cluster of people with at least one common characteristic (geographic location‚ occupation‚ ethnicity‚ housing condition……). Community is a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society. Question 2: What do you mean by “Community Diagnosis?” Answer: Community diagnosis is a comprehensive
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NR 443 Guidelines for Caring for Populations: Community Outreach Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to provide an opportunity to develop a community health nursing flyer that will be utilized for community outreach. It is the basis for your proposed intervention in the final assignment. Course Outcomes This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: 4. Evaluate effective communication with client populations and healthcare providers in managing the healthcare
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT This essay will out line plans for a project based on Community Development (CD) principles to assess and address health inequalities within the Black African community. The chosen community to be involved with is the western part of Brockley (South East London) which consists three blocks of high rise flats within the estate. There are approximately 600 families living in this area. The reason for choosing this community is of poor accessibility to services and high number
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University of the Philippines Manila The Health Sciences Center COLLEGE OF NURSING WHO Collaborating Center for Leadership in Nursing Development CHED Center for Excellence Sotejo Hall‚ Pedro Gil St.‚ Ermita‚ Manila Nursing 119 – Community Health Nursing II Charles’ Angels Group August 7‚ 2013 DATA COLLECTION PLAN Objectives I. Describe the demographic characteristics of six to nine year old (6-9) children in Barangay 818-A A. Determine the proportion of six to nine (6 to 9) year
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A healthy community is a place where people can prosper both physically and socially‚ reaching their full potential. In these communities health promotion is adopted‚ and every member works at maintaining a healthy lifestyle free from injury‚ illness‚ and disease. These communities improve the quality of life of their inhabitants by providing its members with healthy‚ available‚ accessible‚ and affordable options. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2014). These communities invest “in proven
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describe community psychology by distinguishing it from other disciplines with which it is closely allied. Community psychology is like clinical psychology and community mental health in its action orientation. That is‚ community psychology aims to promote human welfare. But community psychology arose largely out of dissatisfaction with the clinician’s tendency to locate mental health problems within the individual. Community psychologists are more likely to see threats to mental health in the social
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this class‚ I have learned some really great information about the physical and mental health of a community‚ and ways to better them. With the knowledge I have obtained‚ I will now design a community that I feel is healthy‚ and describe what it would look like. For starters‚ there are some factors that I have learned that make a healthy community. These are the physical factors: geography‚ environment‚ community size‚ and industrial development. The social and cultural factors are: beliefs‚ traditions
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of Health Among Women Part of the LGBT Community At least 2 million people worldwide identify themselves as gay‚ lesbian‚ bisexual‚ transgender‚ transsexual or queer. Moreover‚ a 2003 Health Canada survey indicated that within individuals aged 18-59‚ 28% of homosexuals and bisexuals claimed they had at least one healthcare need that has gone unmet‚ double the percentage of heterosexuals (Armstrong & Deadman‚ 2009). As these statistics state‚ 560 000 individuals in the LGBT community have
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