Walden HLTH5205/HLTH6205/HLTH8205E Week 4 Discussion Latest 2024

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

Week 4 Discussion

UTILIZING SECONDARY DATA COLLECTION METHODS

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.

Secondary data collection allows you, as a health educator, to analyze data that have previously been collected. Thus, it alleviates the process of developing data collection tools and collecting data. In addition, you can also utilize secondary data to complement primary data. Secondary data collection is also less expensive and less time-consuming than primary data collection. As a health educator, you will often have to depend on secondary data for community health needs assessments. Therefore, it is important for you to understand how to use and interpret secondary data.

For this Discussion, your Instructor will provide two articles and you will select the one that interests you the most.

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

Post a summary analysis of the article’s findings you selected.

What did the author/s analyze? What were the major findings presented?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using secondary data to collect information?

Provide an example of another secondary data base you have used in the past or would like to use in the future. Discuss why you selected this data base and the information it would provide a health educator. Provide the link if possible.

BY DAY 5

Remember to begin interacting with your colleagues in the Discussion and continue engaging through Day 7 by critiquing your colleagues' responses and explaining the strengths and weaknesses of the data collection methods they chose.

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.