Assignment Task:
Community: Bronzeville, Chicago
Overview
In week 1 you identified the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in your community. These certainly indicate health needs.
This week expand your thinking to other types of health needs your community as a whole and members of your community is or might be experiencing.
Instructions:
This assignment has 2 parts with multiple elements. Ensure you address each elements in this activity.
Steps:
Provide the following in about 200 words total
1. Identify one health need from the health category of your community needs assessment. This must be a concern that is supported by evidence in your CAG. Need Assignment Help?
- List the need and briefly describe it. For example, are they major problems or still minor; are they new or ongoing; do they impact the whole community or a specific group in the community?
- Which social determinant or determinants of health apply to this need?
2. Next, take a minute to speak with a member of the community. It can be someone you came across in your windshield survey, a friend, relative, health provider, etc. The only stipulation is that they live in the community. Ask the person you are speaking with the following questions and communicate their answers in your post.
- What is the most pressing they need see from a community perspective.
- What is the need or gap that most impacts them? You will identify your contact with initials only and cite the conversation as a personal communication e.g., (E. Robbins, personal communication, January 4, 2019).
Personal communications should not be included in your references.
You must include at least one current week's (2/3) learning material demonstrating synthesis of ideas from a variety of sources.
Ensure that any other sources are < 5 years old.
Write out the questions and use bullets or numbering to ensure that your comments are easily followed.
Do not add attachments.
Please Double Space.
Do not use direct quotations.
Be sure to use in-text citations where appropriate.
This assignment requires proper APA styling for citations and references. A title page is not required
Note: FIVE (only five) static and designated Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). They are:
- Economic
- Education
- Healthcare
- Environment and Built Environment
- Social
Conditions and vulnerabilities are "housed" within these categories. So, things like stigma, trauma, food insecurity, homelessness substance use etc., are not SDOHs. Rather, they are conditions and vulnerabilities which are created, impacted, influenced by the Five SDOHs above.