Community Health Assessment[WLOs: 1, 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 1 and 2 from Turnock’s Public Health: What It Is and How It Works and Chapter 3 from Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach.
Your community is about to undertake a community health assessment, and you have been tasked to review and improve the list of community health profile indicators proposed for this process. These include the Healthy People Leading Health indicators (found in the Turnock text) and the basic community health indicators proposed by the IOM (found in the Turnock text).
- After reviewing the available resources and health issues in your community, identify four indicators you would add to this list, based on what you know about the health status and needs of your community.
- Support your recommendations with research.
The Community Health Assessment
- must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing CenterLinks to an external site..
- must include a separate title page with the following:
- Title of paper
- Student’s name
- Course name and number
- Instructor’s name
- Date submitted
- must include introduction and conclusion paragraphs.
- must use at least six credible sources, two of which must be scholarly, that highlight the importance of fighting for at least two of your four added indicators. Include four credible local or state news articles from your area that validate the need for these added indicators. Be sure to integrate your research rather than simply inserting it.
- The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources Download Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sourcestable offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
- must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.
- must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.
Carefully review the Grading RubricLinks to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.