Create an outline on a graphic organizer of the following community assessment plan to prepare for the following weeks video presentation. For this assignment, identify an area of focus in community health within your community.
Using Gordons functional health patterns framework (p.130 in your e-text) and assess the health risks in your community.
In your community assessment outline, include the following:
Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings.
Refer to Table 8-3: Examples of community strengths and concerns and assess the strengths and concerns of your community.
Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstorm ways of addressing these barriers.
Findings from your assessment may include the following:
Using prenatal and infancy home visits to prevent child abuse and neglect
Preventing
Falls in the elderly
Risky sexual behavior among youth and young adults
Improving vaccination rates
Reducing
Population salt intake
Tobacco use among adults
Drug experimentation among young adults
Motor vehicle accidents
Physical abuse among partners
You must include 23 sources cited and referenced in APA Style. Sources may include community resources such as flyers, brochures, interviews, news stories, and local research data from credible sources.
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Community Assessment Outline: Falls Prevention among the Elderly African Americans
1. Introduction
Focus: The focus is on fall prevention among the elderly African American
community
Framework: Gordons Functional Health Patterns framework is to be employed
2. Community Resources to be used
The healthcare facilities: This includes rehabilitation centers, clinics and local
healthcare facilities
Educational Institutions: Including colleges and universities with healthcare
programs on fitness
Community centers: Taking advantage of th
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