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Week 2 - Assignment
Vulnerable Population Summary and Proposed Program
The first of your two written assignments for the course will provide a beginning framework that you will utilize in the development of your
Final Project: a proposal for a community-based program in your area. For this first written assignment, you will select one of the vulnerable groups identified in the text that will serve as your target population of interest throughout the duration of your next written assignment and Final Project.
Select one among the following groups from Chapter 1:
- Vulnerable mothers and children
- Abused individuals
- Chronically ill and disabled people
- People diagnosed with HIV/AIDS
- People diagnosed with mental conditions
- Suicide- and homicide-liable people
- People affected by alcohol and substance abuse
- Indigent and homeless people
- Immigrants and refugees
- Groups for special consideration (you may propose a different vulnerable population at the consent of the instructor)
Once you have selected a group of interest, write a three page paper that covers the following:
- Discuss the impact that at least two of the factors below have on the vulnerability of your chosen group:
- Age
- Gender
- Culture/Ethnicity
- Income
- Analyze the intersection of social, political, and economic factors affecting vulnerability (must address all three factors).
- Draft the design of a new model program, not currently existent within your community. Provide a two- to- three paragraph statement that introduces your proposed community program. This section is tentative and might change as you conduct more research. At a minimum, however, items to address should include:
- An explanation of the issues and risk factors experienced by the selected population.
- An evaluation of the health needs of the group and a proposed continuum of care level (preventive, treatment, or long-term care) based on the group’s issues, risk factors, and needs. Justify the proposed level with supportive research/evidence.
- A description of one to two proposed services your program will include.
Your assignment should be a minimum of three pages in length (excluding title and reference pages), and should include a minimum of three scholarly sources cited according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAM
Community-Based Program
Institutional Affiliation
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COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAM
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Introduction
According to Frohlich, and Potvin, (2008), a vulnerable population is defined as a group
of people who are at risk of poor health status and access to health care. In the society, there are
various groups of people with different forms of vulnerability. These different groups often
require diverse empowerment approaches to assist them to continue with their healthy lives. The
vulnerable groups in the society are limited to access of resources when compared to the other
people, and also they tend to have been forgotten by the other members of the community (Chen,
Wilkinson, Richardson, & Waruszynski, 2009). Vulnerable groups are usually the marginalized,
most impoverished and highly stigmatized by the other members of the society. The vulnerable
groups in the community include refugees, the disabled and chronically ill, the abused, women
and children, people living with HIV/AIDS, people diagnosed with mental illness condition,
indigents and homelessness people and so on. In this case, the paper will be about the
vulnerability of the people diagnosed with the HIV/AIDS.
People diagnosed with HIV/AIDS
Some of the factors that contribute to the susceptibility of the people who are diagnosed
with HIV/AIDS include income, age, culture, religion and so on. The culture/ ethnicity
contribute significantly to the increase of the vulnerability of the people who are diagnosed with
HIV/AIDS. Culture is the way of life of a specific group of people, and it consists of their beliefs,
objects, behaviors, norms, and values (Ayres et al., 2006). In Africa, some societies have a
culture that segregates people who are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Those communities view the
HIV AIDS victims as the bewitched individuals and therefore do not ...
