Slide 1: Go to your city/county’s tourist or Chamber of Commerce website. Read the introduction and history to your community.
Introduction Include state, geographic location, overall description of whether rural, urban, and, one or two interesting facts.
County’s population,
distribution of races (highest three),
median household income,
% living in poverty,
% High school and % Bachelor education,
% of total population > 16 y/o employed,
a map (image) showing where in the state your county is situated.
Side 2: Select Two (2) positive health indicators (i.e. county has less smoking, or, fewer premature deaths than state and national average. ) If your county has not positive health indicates, state this.
Provide descriptions of each (positive) health indicator (found on county healthranksing.org website > click on blue health indicator link).
Provide 2-3 sentence comparing the positive indicators, as they relate to the state and US (see video for where to find this information.
If none of the indicators are ‘positive, choose the best of the worst as in the template example (i.e. adult smoking).
Slides 3-4: Select four (4) of your community’s most concerning (troubling) health indicators that are worse than the state and US. Choose from among the health outcomes, health behaviors, clinical care and/or social or economic indicators. (i.e., see ppt slides 3 & 4 table examples).
Provide a description of each of the four (4) concerning indicators (link on ‘blue’ health indicators in County Health Rankings table that will take you to definitions and descriptions for each.)
Provide thorough comparison (2-3 sentence) of each (negative) health indicator as compared to the State and US top performer.
Slide 5: Choose the one most urgent indicator that pertains to teens (population of interest). Explain why, of the 4 problem health indicators you report, you believe this one is the most urgent.
Slide 6: Briefly define and summarize the goal of Healthy People 2030 (.e., paraphrase this from the overview summary
Side 7: Think of a PH Intervention you recommend as the next step to promote health for the at-risk community population.
Name the (a) specific MN PH intervention you recommend. (b) What level the intervention is (Systems, community, individual/family)? (c) Define the intervention.
Slide 8: Define your intervention as specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-limited. State your plan as a SMART plan: (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-scaled) in 2-3 sentences.
Slide 9: Conclude with a short opinion of your community assessment observations. What were you most surprised to discover about your community? How confident are you in defining a population-of-interest and it’s urgent health indicators?
Slide 10: References
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