Development of a Population Health Care Delivery
The assignments for Units 6–9 will be focused on a Population Health Care Delivery Project.
The four components of this Population Health Care Delivery Project include:
community risk assessment
intervention development
implementation plan
evaluation plan
In this unit you will complete the Community Risk Assessment which is the first step in development of a Population Health Care Delivery Project.
This Assignment is used as the evaluation tool for Course Outcome 2: Summarize, based on the evidence, specific population health risks.
Directions:
You will write a 4 page MS Word document (excluding the title and reference pages) which contains:
demographic and social determinants, including multicultural and diverse communities for your population health;
community infrastructure variables;
analysis of surveillance data collected for the risk assessment including
sources of data (bibliographic databases, U.S. government sources of data and peer-reviewed evidence-based findings);
data calculations; and
criteria for assessing the quality and utility of the epidemiologic data.
outcomes from the risk assessment related to the health of your target population; criteria for figuring out how good and useful the epidemiologic data are.
results of the risk assessment that have to do with the health of your target group;
You have to choose one screening tool from an article in a peer-reviewed journal and talk about how well it works.
you must select one screening tool from one peer reviewed journal article and discuss the reliability and validity of the tool; and
a minimum of five peer reviewed evidence-based journal articles with findings relevant to your target population and selected epidemiological problem.
