Community Resources for Assessment Summary
Community Strategic Plan: Part A, Community Assessment
For this assignment, identify an area of focus in community health within your own community.
Using Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns framework (p. 130 in your e-text), assess the health risks in your community.
In your community assessment paper, include the following:
- Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings (1–2 paragraphs).
- Refer to Table 8-3: Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns, and assess the strengths and concerns of your community (2–3 paragraphs).
- Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstorm ways of addressing these barriers (2–3 paragraphs).
Plan ahead: Next week, as Part B of this assignment, you will select one (1) identified risk from this assessment to develop a community-focused strategic plan to address that health risk. It is recommended that you look ahead to next week’s assignment so that you can begin framing your chosen community health focus.
Your paper should be 2–3 pages in length, not including the cover and reference pages. Use APA throughout.
You must include 2–3 sources that are APA cited and referenced in your paper. (Sources may include community resources such as flyers, brochures, interviews, news stories, and local research data from credible sources.)
Review the rubric for further information on how your assignment will be graded.
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Answer previewCommunity Resources for Assessment Summary
By use of Gordon’s functional health patterns framework, several health risks are identified in my community. Cardiovascular disorders are necessary health risks in the community. Assessing records on feeding habits and the activity exercise patterns show most of the people in the community have a modesty life (Riverside, California, 2018). They drive to and from walk and shopping stores are available within residential places. Obesity and excess weight gain is a severe risk for children and teeth that walk an average of less than 1 km in a day while relying heavily on junk foods (Subica et al., 2017). Air pollution is very high from the fossil fuels leading to the threat of asthma. Being established and operating in 24 hours community members are prone to psychological problems…
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