Community Risk Assessment which is the first step in development
Community Risk Assessment which is the first step in development
The assignments for Units 6–9 will be focused on a Population Health Care Delivery Project.
The four components of this Population Health Care Delivery Project include:
community risk assessment
intervention development
implementation plan
evaluation plan
In this unit you will complete the Community Risk Assessment which is the first step in development of a Population Health Care Delivery Project.
This Assignment is used as the evaluation tool for Course Outcome 2: Summarize, based on the evidence, specific population health risks.
Directions:
You will write a 4 page MS Word document (excluding the title and reference pages) which contains:
demographic and social determinants, including multicultural and diverse communities for your population health;
community infrastructure variables;
analysis of surveillance data collected for the risk assessment including
sources of data (bibliographic databases, U.S. government sources of data and peer-reviewed evidence-based findings);
data calculations; and
criteria for assessing the quality and utility of the epidemiologic data.
outcomes from the risk assessment related to the health of your target population;
you must select one screening tool from one peer reviewed journal article and discuss the reliability and validity of the tool; and
a minimum of five peer reviewed evidence-based journal articles with findings relevant to your target population and selected epidemiological problem.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument