Posted: September 16th, 2017

Overweight and Obesity

Topic: Overweight and Obesity

Order Description

Introduction:

More emphasis is being placed on healthier communities as changes are occurring in the fields of healthcare financing, policy, and focus. One of the primary roles of a community health nurse is to assess the community or population in order to determine its health status in relation to its assets and needs.

Requirements:

A. Identify an appropriate community for which there is published data available (county, state, or national data) that will support the diagnosis.
SCOTT COUNTY, MINNESOTA or HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
B. Assess the health needs and risks of the identified community by utilizing the following tools:
Note: The collection of this data should include a variety of data sources, such as focus groups with older adults and/or youth, epidemiological data from the health department or department of vital statistics, investigations of community resources from stakeholders or faith-based organizations, and/or surveys. You do not have to answer every question listed in the assessment tools. Each of these tools can be found either in the web links section or as an attachment to this task.
• Population Economic Status Assessment
• Neighborhood/Community Safety Inventory
• Cultural Assessment Tool
• Disaster Assessment and Planning Guide
• Windshield Survey
• Population Health Scavenger Hunt
LET ME KNOW IF YOU NEED MORE OF THESE TOOLS, Some already downloaded for you, see attachments

1. Interpret the collected data using concepts of epidemiology and health determinants (e.g., birth rate, death rate, rates of disease, morbidity).

C. Formulate an appropriate community diagnosis for the selected community by doing the following (suggested length of 4-5pages):

1. Identify the top three problems for the selected community based on the Healthy People 2020 goals.
(I want to have an OBESITY as one of the three problem to write about)

a. Discuss the problems in relation to the Healthy People 2020 goals.

2. Select one of the problems identified in part C1 that you would like to investigate further, and do the following:

Overweight and Obesity
• prevention of overweight and obesity through healthy nutrition and physical activity

a. Discuss community resources (e.g., Public Health Department, American Red Cross, American Heart) that are available to address this problem.

3. Formulate a primary prevention topic based on the problem you identified in part C2.
Please follow Rubric attachment and write the paper as:
A: writing
B:Writing
B1: Writing
C:writing
C1 writing and so on
Note: See the attached “Approved Topic List” for guidance in formulating your topic.

D. Include all in-text citations and references in APA format.

Population/Economic Assessment
Scott County, Minnesota has a population of about 137,232 for 2013 estimate with 364.5 people per square mile estimated in 2010. 5.6% increase in population reported from year of 2010 to year of 2013.
Population is very diverse, which contain 83.5% of white, non-Hispanic, Asian 6.1%, Black or African American 3.3%, Hispanic or Latino 4.7%, American Indian 1% and 2% of Two or More Races .
Median household income, 2009-2013 $86,112

References
https://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/27/27139.html
https://www.culturecareconnection.org/documents/ScottCounty.pdf

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