HSM 494 NSU Community Intervention Program Paper – Description
Final Paper- See attached document for instructions on for your final paper
Discussion4-
Johnson County Community Hospital would like to see whether their Community Intervention Program, which was designed to improve the health of their community, has been effective. They are concerned that they are not going to have funds for the next year and need to decide which interventions they should continue and which they need to consider removing based on the effectiveness toward improving the health of the community.
Below is some information about the community:
Population equality divided by age with the following numbers:
Total Population
Under 5 years
5-14 years
15-24 years
25-44 years
45-64 years
65-74
Years
75+
years
177,560
12,154
25,076
23,421
53,010
38,130
15,333
10,436
Health Conditions in the community:
22.2% of adults are smokers and 24.3% of grades 9-12 are smoker
31% of ages 18-64 and 42% of ages 65+ received a flu immunization
83% of ages 45+ have evidence of heart disease
17% of ages 15-24 have or currently utilized opioids
5% of all ages have disease of the blood such as sickle cell
Johnson County must prioritize their efforts. They must select two activities as a focus.
Given this information,
What specific intervention programs do you think would be the priority for the Community Intervention Program?
Describe your complete rationale for your suggestion
Site Review 1 and 2- You will write a one page summary report on site visit 1 or researched facility (Boulders Ambulatory Surgery Center) and a one page summary report on site visit 2 or researched facility (Richmond City Health Department) The summary report must include five major areas:
Name and location of the facility
Purpose and mission of the organization
Source of funding
Types of services rendered
Type of customers served (socio-demographics)
Must include APA citations.
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