community health assessment winshield survey

GUIDELINES:

1. Community description.

2. Community health status (can be obtain from the department of health).

3. The role of the community as a client.

4. Healthy people 2020, lading health indictors in your community.

5. Conclusion.

Also, you must present a table as an appendix with the following topics and description;

Housing

Transportation

Race and ethnicity

Open space

Service centers

Religion and politics

A community health assessment, refers to a state, tribal, local, or territorial health assessment that

identifies key health needs and issues through systematic, comprehensive data collection and

analysis. Community health assessments use such principles as

ï‚· Multisector collaborations that support shared ownership of all phases of community health

improvement, including assessment, planning, investment, implementation, and evaluation

ï‚· Proactive, broad, and diverse community engagement to improve results

ï‚· A definition of community that encompasses both a significant enough area to allow for population-

wide interventions and measurable results, and includes a targeted focus to address disparities

among subpopulations

ï‚· Maximum transparency to improve community engagement and accountability

ï‚· Use of evidence-based interventions and encouragement of innovative practices with a thorough

evaluation

ï‚· Evaluation to inform a continuous improvement process

ï‚· Use of the highest quality data pooled from and shared among, diverse public and private sources

(Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/cha/plan.html)

Windshield Survey:

“A windshield survey is an informal method used by community health nurses to obtain basic

knowledge about a given community. It provides a subjective view of the various physical

characteristics of a communal area as observed while driving or walking through a neighborhood.

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