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PUBH 8450: Community Health Assessment

Scholar-Practitioner Project

The Topic is on Obesity and the community involved is the Prince Georges county in Maryland.

Scholar-Practitioner Project Guidelines

(12 pages, not including title page and references) refrences should be 8-10

Introduction: Selecting a Community

· Description of health community

· Explanation of a health problem in that community

· Explanation of the interrelationship of contributing factors relating to the problem

· Two potential solutions to the problem

Body:

· Plan for community health assessment

· Identify stakeholders to be included in your community health assessment plan and explain why they should be involved.

· Describe the stakeholders’ potential roles and responsibilities in the assessment.

· Develop goals for the community health assessment plan and explain why you selected these goals.

· Describe three or four types of data that you might collect to further the goals of the plan, and explain why.

· Describe the methods of data collection you might use in your plan and explain why you would use them.

· Community health profiles

Include a summary of the following:

· Recent local, state, and regional quantitative sociodemographic, morbidity, and mortality data

· Recent national or international quantitative sociodemographic, morbidity, and mortality data

· Recent local, state, and regional quantitative data related to one factor contributing to the identified problem

· The relevancy of these findings to the problem you identified

· Determining relevant assets By Day 7, create an asset map that includes the following:

· Describe the primary community assets available in your Scholar-Practitioner Project community and explain why they are relevant.

· Select three assets you identified. Explain how you might integrate the asset into a potential community health assessment and public health promotion program that would address the problem you selected for your Scholar-Practitioner Project.

· Use Resources and current literature to support your response.

· The focus group protocol

· Describe a subgroup from your community (include relevant demographics such as gender, socioeconomic status, age).

· Restate the public health problem in the community health profile you created in Week 5.

· Create six questions for the focus group related to the identified public health problem (e.g., contributing factors, potential solutions, assets available to solve the problem). 

· Describe methods you would use for recruiting participants and collecting and managing the data. Explain why these methods would be effective.

· Create a brief (two-paragraph) consent form that summarizes the reason for the focus group, procedures to be followed, participants’ rights, and procedures for maintaining confidentiality.

· Survey protocol

The protocol should include the following:

· A brief set of objectives for the survey

· Describe the population you would sample and explain why.

· Describe your data collection method you might use and explain why.

· Describe your data analysis method and explain why.

· Applying evidence-based solutions to the problem

· One evidence-based solution you might use to address the public health problem you identified for your Scholar-Practitioner Project community health assessment

· A rationale for your choice of this solution

· An explanation of how you could determine the feasibility of this solution

· An explanation of how this evidence-based solution might be integrated into your Scholar-Practitioner Project

Conclusion:

· Final synthesis of the problem and potential solutions