Assignment: Population Health Care Delivery Project: Community Risk Assessment

Purpose:

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 3 page document (excluding the title and reference pages) which contains:

demographic and social determinants 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;

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 no older than 5 years.

Your writing Assignment should:

follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);

be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;

display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and;

use APA 6th edition format.