Moreover, people in a community live in the same place under the same laws and regulations. In addition community health is a field of public health concerned with the study and betterment of the health characteristics of biological communities (“Community Health,” 2009). Community health focuses on geographic areas rather than people with share characteristics. The health of a community is a key factor about its quality of life. Community health offers services that protect and promote the health of its residents.
Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Mary Lou Lamer NUR/405 January 25, 2013 Dawn Warner Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Introduction “Although it is necessary to identify health risk factors among individuals and groups in the community, it is of paramount importance that nurses learn to identify and work with health problems of a defined population or the total community”. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, pg. 395). The “windshield survey” is one method that the nurse can use to collect data about a particular community, however, understanding the meaning of community, community health, community as a client, and partnership, as they relay to nursing in the public setting, is important to successful data assessment. Community “Community is a locality – based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting society’s institutions, informal groups, and aggregates”.
This broad definition of community health includes the dimensions of process, status, and structure. Assessing community health requires the collection of existing data, generation of missing data, and an analysis of the resulted compilation of data. The community is the client when the nursing effort is concentrated on the joint welfare of the population instead of just on the health of a single individual. The goal of population-centered healthcare is to accomplish helpful change intended to increase the benefit of the entire community as a collective whole. My impression of my participating family’s community and environment is extremely positive.
Community as a client 1. The community is the client if a nurse works towards helping the community even when this is accomplished by helping one individual at a time. According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2008), “The community is the client only when the nursing focus is on the collective or common good of the population instead of on individual health” (p. 344). “Although the nurse may work with individuals, families or other interacting groups, aggregates, or institutions, or within a population, the resulting changes are intended to affect the whole community” (p. 344). Stanhope, M. & Lancaster,
This type of facility has historically shown to be high-risk in most urban development centers. To this point mixed use developments with retail located on upper floors have largely failed in urban development with the exception of Chicago’s Water Tower Place. The design was to be composed of four property types namely: hotel, office, residential, and retail, plus a cultural theater. This composition of property types was thought to be sustainable due to the properties relative location in heart of the densely developed section of Manhattan’s Columbus Circle, facing central park and Broadway. Feasibility of the project was also supported by an upturn in residential property market.
Mid-Columbia’s mission is to lead and act as a catalyst in promoting health for all people. They want to recognize the individual as a whole human being with different needs and to communicate a vision of health and education to upgrade the quality of life in the community environment. They believe it is important to empower people to become partners in their own healthcare. Mid-Columbia’s commitment to meet or exceed expectations of patients and to create an exceptional experience, results in industry leading levels of patient satisfaction (MCMC,
Doane and Varcoe state that relational nursing practice is seen “through a relational lens, always assuming and looking for how people, situations, contexts, environments, and processes are integrally connecting and shaping each other” (2008, p.51). This definition of relational practice can be applied to Health Promotion as it encompasses a holistic approach to health. The concepts of relational theory are dynamic to nursing practice as they are needed to establish a collaborative relationship between all involved resulting in better health care and health promotion. The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion states that “Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health” (World Health Organization [WHO], 1986, p. 1). The Ottawa charter describes Health promotion in a broad focus on health including education, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the importance of client’s participation to influence on his or her own care and outcome.
Terrie Hall, former smoker, has suffered severely from the effects of smoking. She did a commercial for the Center for Disease Control titled “Tips From Former Smokers- Terrie’s Ad”. The commercial began with a picture of Terrie in her youth then the sound of her voice began. This was extremely disturbing for me because her voice did not match her picture. she sounds robotic.
To ensure health and education is planned and acted upon, partnerships with many entities are needed in all areas of society to meet the needs of the diverse populations involved. If partnered appropriately education and health prophylaxis can be presented in ways that are understood to make changes in their lifestyles to maintain safety and health of all. By working together in partnerships within the community, all those within the community are touched positively and
5. Social and economic factors which influence health The impact of social and economic factors on the health of individuals is well recognised and understood by the Health, Social Care & Well-Being Partnership, and is considered in the Needs Assessment. Most local authority services impact on health in some way and the first Health, Social Care and Well-being Strategy recognised the role of services such as social care, housing, economic development, education, and transport. But there are many others such as street cleaning, refuse disposal, building regulations which can also affect people’s health. This strategy once again prioritises a number of key influential factors which impact health in a significant way.