Description
As a healthcare professional, understanding where to locate evidence-based resources in order to help your patients benefit from that knowledge will be useful in your career. One such resource is The National Center for Health Statistics. The Center has established Healthy People 2020 for tracking the nation's health. In this assignment, you will begin from the topic you selected and propose a culturally competent, as defined by SAMHSA, community based health program.
Go to the Healthy People 2020 website and find the Topics & Objectives. Once you have located the 42 topic areas discussed on the website, choose a topic in which you are interested.
Write a 1,500-1,750-word paper in which you propose a community health program related to the topic you selected. Include the following in your proposal:
- An overview of the program you are proposing. What is it? Who are the population(s) it will serve?
- A rationale for the program.
- A discussion of how the program will be established as and will remain culturally competent.
- A discussion of how the program could be affected if budgetary restraints limited research in that field.
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Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: HEALTH PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Cardiovascular Disease Health Prevention and Management program
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An Overview of the Proposed Program and the Target Population
According to Healthy people 2020, over 85.6 million adults in the United States live with
at least one type of cardiovascular disease. This statistic makes cardiovascular disease one of the
main causes of death and the leading in cost of health care costs in Baltimore city, Maryland.
The health program will focus on the use of new technology to provide better patient and disease
management as a way of improving patient compliance and disease management within
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore City, 2019). The health program will target the Latin Americans
who have been diagnosed as the population with a high prevalence of the cardiovascular disease.
Given the high prevalence of the disease in the United States, Latin Americans are more exposed
to the risk of the diseases because they are a marginalized population with several health
disparities.
The rationale for the Program
The current health programs targeting people at risk of Cardiovascular disease sues
ineffective strategies that do not meet the cultural competence and needs of the marginalized and
minority population. Besides, the efforts by the current program have failed to yield any positive
outcome in terms of the number of new cases of cardiovascular disease and the patient's
outcomes (Fertman & Allensworth, 2016). There is a clear indication that something is not
working out for the current health program especially given that the number of patients at risk of
cardiovascular disease keeps on rising.
Therefore, this health program is proposed to bridge this gap by proposing the use of new
technology and tools to provide better solutions that can effectively manage the population at
risk of cardiovascular disease within Baltimore city. This program will thus focus on the
recommendation of Healthy People 2020 that identifies cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse, high
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cholesterol, overweight and obesity, and diabetes as the main causes of cardiovascular heart
disease (Fertman & Allensworth, 2016). Thus, the educational and prevention strategies will
focus on encouraging behavior changes and healthy lifestyles targeting these risk factors.
This programs will aim at reducing health inequities in Baltimore city by encouraging a
reduction in salt intake Salt. This program will be referred to as "the million hearts initiative"
because it seeks to help over one million Americans at risk of cardiovascular diseases to embrace
a healthy life...
