Community Health

Community Health

Parts I and II Part I

Nursing care plan : Based on Epidemiological Model

Introduction

In this assignment the community and public health of Springdale community , Ohio will be assessed in to develop a community nursing care plan in to promote and protect the health of the populations of this community using knowledge from nursing , social , and public health sciences . It will be population-based , community-oriented care plan based on this community 's problems . The goal of such care is prevention of disease and disability for all people through

br interventions designed for that specific population

Community Health Problems

A population based survey was designed to do a systematic health assessment to identify the most important public health issues of this community . Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems . The core of epidemiology is the use of quantitative methods to study disease and risk factors in human populations . These epidemiologic tools are conventionally great tools in assessing the prevalence and risk factors of any health problems in the community . These procedures analyze the demographic data to discover the causative association between a health problem and the population . Therefore , these would be acceptable tools to design a community nursing intervention to prevent the health problem . The two most important local community problems identified were obesity related to sedentary lifestyle and poor dietary choices and cardiovascular diseases

Community Epidemiologic...