Community Assessment Essay

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This project has the objective to develop preventive medicine teaching cases that will motivate medical students, residents and faculty to improve clinical preventive competencies complemented by a . To this end, been Abstract: Community health assessment is key to understanding the health problems and priorities of a population. This case outlines a process by which the participants can complete a health assessment of a community using indicator-based methods. Students construct a set of health indicators from a variety of domains, evaluate problems and report on the health priorities for a community. The students relate identified health issues to underlying behavioral risk factors. Recommended Reading: • McGinnis AM, Foege WH. Actual Causes of Death. JAMA. 1993; 270 (18): 2207-2212. • Klein RJ, Hawk SA. Health Status Indicators: Definitions and National Data. National Center for Health Statistics. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Spring 1992 1(3): 1-8. • Chapter in text on health data acquisition such as Lee CV. “Public Health Data Acquisition.” In, Novick LF and Mays GP (Eds.). Public Health Administration. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, 2001. • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthy People 2010 Understanding and Improving Health. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 2000. • Healthy People 2010 Leading Health Indicators: available online at http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/LHI/ Objectives: At the end of the case, the student will be able to: • Perform a community health assessment • Identify sources and limitations of population based data

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