Walden HLTH5205/HLTH6205/HLTH8205E Week 1 Discussion Latest 2024

HLTH-5205-1/HLTH-6205-1/HLTH-8205E Assessing Community Needs-Summer 2024

Week 1 Discussion

ASSESSING COMMUNITY NEEDS

This Discussion will be available from Day 1 through Day 7 of this week. You are required to submit your initial post by Day 3. You are encouraged to post early. Once you have submitted your initial post, start responding to your colleagues. You must begin responding to your colleagues by no later than Day 5 and should continue to interact frequently with your colleagues through Day 7. Part of what makes a discussion a discussion and not a lecture is the back and forth, in-depth, animated interaction of at least two people.

If you start a topic and find that none of your peers are responding to your post, consider what you can do to get the conversation going. Include something that would elicit further thoughts and different opinions from peers. Validate your opinions with references and links to the sources you used so that your peers can read them for themselves. See the Discussion Rubric for specific grading requirements.

Communities are unique in terms of their needs, culture, social structure, and even assets. They are built on an intricate design of race, ethnicity, barriers and strengths, history and conflict. When assessing a community's unique needs, a health educator must identify the particular health issues for this community. Such an assessment can also help you empower members of that community to learn how to address their own needs and create positive health changes. Overall, a community health needs assessment allows you, as a health educator, to understand the health issues of the community in a deeper and more meaningful way.

For this Discussion, read this week's resources and watch the video. Then, consider the community in the video. Consider the various health-related factors affecting the community.

RESOURCES

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.

Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

WEEKLY RESOURCE

BY DAY 3

Review the videos in the Learning Resources to learn more about the process and goals associated with a community needs assessment. Then, locate a community needs assessment conducted in your area (e.g. county or region). Post an explanation of two to three health issues that were identified by analyzing the results of the community health needs assessment. What did the assessment team or organization learn about these health issues and how they impact the residents in your community? Also, explain how you as a health educator would address at least one of these issues.

BY DAY 5

Remember to begin interacting with your colleagues in the Discussion and continue engaging through Day 7 by reviewing your colleagues' postings and explaining challenges the health educator might face when conducting a needs assessment. Explain how these challenges could affect the community health needs assessment process. Provide a recommendation for addressing these identified challenges.

Support your work with specific citations from this week's Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made.