Three Pg due 3/22

Title of your paper

Your name

Course information (HCA430 – Special Populations)

Instructor’s name (Jennifer Maves)

Date – spelled out (i.e. January 12, 2015)

Introduction

Your information here in paragraph form:

Who is your chosen vulnerable population and what service do they need in your community that is not currently being offered? If you choose Chronically Ill, you need to choose a specific disease, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etcetera. The disease is of your choice; it just needs to be specific. I also recommend you visit the AU Writing Center and use the thesis generator. It is very easy to use: you enter your thoughts into the boxes and click SUBMIT. The page does NOT refresh – scroll down for options on a thesis statement. This program also offers a potential outline, but I have provided the template here and prefer you use this. It makes grading much easier which translates to better grades for you! There are also a couple of other resources available in the AU Writing Center that may help you with this project which can be found under the MEDIA tab on the far right of the landing page; these are Paragraph Writing and Developing a Topic.

Factors that impact vulnerability

Address two of the following factors: age, gender, culture/ethnicity, and income. How are these factors part of the populations’ vulnerability?

Analyze the intersection of social, political, and economic factors

How do the social factors of a person’s life impact their vulnerability? For example, if you choose alcoholism and want to provide treatment for alcoholics, how does their previous social life impact their becoming an alcoholic and how does their future social life have to change in order to stay clean? What laws are in place, or are not in place, that affect vulnerabilities? What about the economy? All of our vulnerable populations are affected by the economy – describe how.

Proposed program description

Here you will identify one or two service(s) you wish to offer in your potential program. You need to start by doing some research on services offered in your community to your chosen population. If you live in a large community that has multiple options for services to the vulnerable populations, consider the population’s ability to access those services. For example, if you choose indigent and homeless people and there are food banks available to help provide nutrition, can the indigent and homeless population reach the food bank? Your niche may be providing transportation to the food bank, or taking the food to the locations where people need it most.

Provide statistics and trend data from scholarly sources to support the needed services. Websites that end in .gov, .edu and most that end in .org are scholarly. Wikipedia, online encyclopedias, and online dictionaries are not scholarly, though they do end in .org; please do not use these sources. Websites that end in .com and .net are NOT scholarly; please do not use these websites. The one exception to this is your city’s website; many of these are .com websites. You should also visit the AU Library. If you need assistance finding items in the library, please see the Finding Scholarly Articles in the AU Library located in the DOC SHARING tab.

Explain the issues and risk factors experienced by the selected population. For example, if you choose diabetics, issues may be access to high quality healthy food, an understanding of nutrition, learning to read labels to identify hidden sugars, access and motivation to exercise regularly, access to affordable medications, etcetera. The risk factors for your group can be found through research on the internet and in the AU library. These are the factors that increase a person’s risk of becoming a part of the vulnerable population as well as risk factors that increase the problem once they are part of the vulnerable population.

What are the health needs of your vulnerable group? What needs are NOT being met by a current program in your community? Again, this will take some research so you may want to plan on several hours of time to search through the different websites of local providers. As part of your assignment, you are required to justify the service(s) you wish to offer. Your research of the statistics and your research of the current services offered or not offered in your community.

What is the continuum of care you want your program to address: preventive/educational, treatment of active illness, or long-term care that helps the population successfully live with the circumstances and address common long-term issues. I highly recommend you choose ONE of the areas on the continuum, not all three. All three gets really complicated.

Conclusion