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For Part I of the Final Project, read this week's resources. Then, determine the community you would like to focus on for your community health needs assessment project. This can be the community you reside in or a community with which you are familiar. Select a population (e.g., elderly people, teenage mothers) that you want to focus on within the community.

The Assignment (3–4 pages excluding APA citations)

Address the following three areas this week for Part 1 of the Final Project:

  1. Present the purpose of a community health needs assessment:

    For this section, clearly articulate your understanding of what a community health needs assessment is and why someone would conduct one. Explain your understanding based on the resources, and apply this information to your chosen community.
  2. Describe your community and a population within the community:
    • Using the Understanding and Describing the Community resource from Week 2 for guidance, provide a description of the community you selected.
    • Describe the specific population (e.g., the elderly, African-American adolescents) within the community that you will use to conduct the community health needs assessment. Some topics you may wish to discuss include:
      • The background and history of the chosen population
      • The rationale behind choosing this particular population
      • A description of the population's socioeconomic factors
  3. Explain the community health needs assessment's goals:

    Explain three to four overarching goals for your community health needs assessment.


Resources
Gilmore, G. D. (2012). Needs and capacity assessment strategies for health education and promotion (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Chapter 2, "Needs and Capacity Assessment Within the Bigger Picture" (pp. 45–46)
  • Chapter 3, "Single-Step Surveys" (pp. 60–81)
  • Appendix B, "Health Risk Appraisals" (pp. 304–308)
Braunstein, S., & Lavizzo-Mourey, R. (2011). How the health and community development sectors are combining forces to improve health and well-being. Health Affairs,30(11), 2042–2051.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

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COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT

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Community health needs assessment (CHNA) helps to establish health distresses of
people in a given community, learn and understand factors impacting health; and to know more
about resources, assets, and issues that affect these factors (Grant et al., 2015). CHNA uses both
qualitative and quantitative techniques to gather and analyze data relating to health statuses and
resources in a systematic way. The results of CHNA are used to guide decision making on
matters of community health, develop a priority list of health problems in the community; and to
develop, implement, and evaluate health improvement plans for the community.
A typical CHNA will be interested in establishing health risk factors in the community
for the entire community as a whole or for a selected population within the community. Example
of risk factors includes malnutrition, aging, accidents, environmental hazards, and obesity
(Braunstein & Lavizzo-Mourey, 2011). Thus, CHNA will focus on identifying and explain these
risk factors as a way of primary prevention. Other factors of interest to CHNA include quality of
life, morbidity and mortality rates, assets in the community, change agents, social...


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