Lesson 2/3 Flashcards
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What is community assessment?
an assessment that identifies key health factors of a community , achieve goals, and collaborate effectively
How do you do it and why?
- Health status (mortality, morbidity, indicators)
- Structure of the community ( environment, culture, services)
- Competence (how well the community works together)
To gather information
Provide data baseline
Identify areas in need of improvement
What is a comprehensive assessment?
health departments and hospitals use a collection of data about populations living in a community
What is population focused assessments?
an aggregate or community that shares one similar issue
What is setting specific assessment?
identify indicators specific to the setting
What is problem or health issue based assessment?
determines who is at risk
What is health impact assessment?
provides advice to the community on optimizing its health by identifying potential effects within the population
What is rapid needs assessment?
measure the present and potential public health impact of an emergency
What are data sources?
various ways data is collected and used for analysis, decision-making, or research
What are primary sources?
Data collected from primary investigators
Ex: key informants, focus groups, community mapping , primary data
What are Secondary sources?
data that is collected other than firsthand
Ex: websites, printed magazines
What does it mean to say community as client?
The community is ONLY the client when the focus is the collective or common good of the population and not the individual health
What are tools for program planning?
MAPP (tool for understanding community health status and resources)
Precede/Proceed
Logic Model (5 steps; systematic approach to evaluating health outcomes and resources)
What is program planning? Why do we do it and how?
It is one of the 10 PH essential services.
This process helps a community understand where they are to where they would like to be.
- identify potential problems
- develop measurable goals and outcome objectives to assess progress
- select effective interventions
- implement interventions
- evaluate the interventions based on the objectives
How do you write a nursing diagnosis for a community?
- Risk or actual (identify the specific risk the community faces)
- Among (the specific population that is affected by the problem or risk)
- Related to (strengths/weaknesses/influencing the issues)
How do you evaluate a program?
- decide who should participate
- develop questions
- put a budget
- figure out internal or external evaluations
- determine data collection
- collect data
- analyze and interpret data
- communicate findings to shareholders
- show evidence for and to improve the program
What is program evaluation?
collection of info about activities and outcomes to enhance a program & its effectiveness (provides useful feedback)
What is formative evaluation?
occurs during the forming of activities and being implemented for the first time (Opportunities for corrective feedback)
What is Process evaluation?
investigate the process of delivering the program (detailed info on how it works)
What is summative evaluation?
reviews objectives and goals of the program, discovering if the inventions achieved the intended changes
What are the levels of prevention?
Primary prevention: prevent the development of disease (education, promoting health, providing protection)
Secondary prevention: early detection and treatment of disease (screenings, blood sugar test, mamograms, community assessments)
tertiary prevention: Prevention of disability and premature death (get adjusted to disease, minimize suffering, support groups, physical therapy)
What is Health Literacy?
reflects how well a person can locate, understand, and apply health information and services to the health-related actions and decisions they make for themselves.
The intervention wheel is _____ based?
Population
What are system levels of practice?
Systems levels of practice: changes policies, laws, organizations, and power structures within communities.
Ex: conducting compliance checks to ensure that bars and liquor stores do not serve minors or sell to individuals who supply alcohol to minors
