Walden HLTH5205/HLTH6205/HLTH8205E Week 2 Discussion Latest 2024

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

Week 2 Discussion

ASSESSING COMMUNITY CAPACITY

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 your Discussion Rubric for specific grading requirements.

Community resources are an inherent part of capacity building. Identifying and analyzing the types of resources within a community provides you, as a health educator, a unique insight toward community health and well-being. These activities also help you determine what resources a community may be lacking, as well as identify ways to obtain these missing and needed resources. For this Discussion, select a health issue in your community or in a community with which you are familiar.

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

By Day 3 Post the health issue you selected and an explanation of your selected community's strengths and weaknesses in alleviating this health issue. Explain how you would address at least one of the weaknesses. Also, explain the resources available or lacking to improve the health issue.

BY DAY 5

Remember to begin interacting with your colleagues in the Discussion and continue engaging through Day 7 by providing additional ways a health educator could address the weakness your colleague has identified. Suggest additional resources to improve the health issue. Also, suggest how you would obtain the resources that your colleague's selected community is lacking.

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.