Walden HLTH5205/HLTH6205/HLTH8205E Week 5 Discussion Latest 2024

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

Week 5 Discussion

UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF QUALITATIVE DATA METHODS IN COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT

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.

Qualitative data collection methods are utilized primarily to gain information that cannot necessarily or easily be translated into numbers. You, as a health educator, will use qualitative data collection methods to gather information around the feelings, actions, perceptions, and history of the community regarding the current environment and health issues. You collect these pieces of information knowing that the data is subjective. However, it is the opinion of the community and therefore is relevant.

For this Discussion, consider your own community or a community you are familiar with. Referencing this week's readings, and the video Harnessing Qualitative Data to Advance Health Equity,  identify the different methods of qualitative data collection that can be used in a community health needs assessment. Consider the importance of understanding your selected community's health issues to determine which qualitative data collection methods are most relevant. Select a qualitative data collection method to use for collecting information on these health issues in your selected 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

Post a description of the qualitative method of data collection you selected. Explain why it would be a good match for obtaining the information you need. Also, describe known health disparities in the community and discuss how qualitative data could help address the disparities through the vehicle of health equity.   What are the advantages of using qualitative data collection methods to help address health equity issues as part of a community health needs assessment?

BY DAY 5

Remember to begin interacting with your colleagues in the Discussion and continue engaging through Day 7 by responding to one or more colleagues whose data collection method is different from the one you chose. Provide additional strengths and weaknesses of that particular method. Also, expand on the colleague's posting with additional insight and resources.

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.