1. Describe the Community (One to two pages)
A.Select a county (minimum population 8,000) in the US as your target community, preferably one that may have health needs. Identify te community and describe where it is located (i.e., provide context, such as “suburban area just north of NYC”) and provide a description of what the community is like (e.g., inner-city area; rural area) (1-2 paragraphs).
B. Select a comparison community/geographic location (e.g., county, state) for you to compare your target community against. Briefly describe the comparison community/county (1 small paragraph).
C. Decide upon a health problem that you would like to investigate and briefly describe it (1 small paragraph). Please do not present data about the health problem here, that will be in your next assignment. Describe the Community (One to two pages)
2. Describe the Population. (Two to three pages – not including the table and the graph)
A. Specify the target population for this health problem and why you selected this population (1 paragraph). For example, if you were concerned about increasing rates of asthma among African-American children, your target population would be African-American children in your target community.
B.Once you have chosen your target population, please do the following for your target and comparison communities:
a. Using the census data, identify 4 variables (in addition to age, race/ethnicity, and total population) that you feel are important characteristics of your target community and/or are particularly relevant to your health problem of interest. Explain why you chose those specific variables.
b. Present the total population and your six selected census variables (age, race/ethnicity plus 4 variables that you selected) in a table for the target and comparison communities side by side. The table must have all required table elements and follow “best practices” (see “Best Practices Checklist Download Best Practices Checklist”
c. Select one census variable (from those in your table) and present it as a graph. Please label the graph as a figure and include all required elements as well as follow “best practices” (see “Best Practices Checklist Download Best Practices Checklist”).Once you have chosen your target population, please do the following for your target and comparison communities:
C. Describe in words (2-3 paragraphs) what the data in your table and graph are telling you. Highlight the important comparisons in your text but you do not need to repeat all the percentages from the table. What is important about the data? Be specific in your description and use selected data from your table as examples.
a. Again, please be sure to not re-iterate all the numbers in your table.
b. However, please refer to the table and graph in the text (e.g., “see Table 1”)
c. Attempt to maintain an objective tone in your narrative by not using words like “shocking”, “astounding”, “alarming”, “staggering”, or “uneducated”.
d. In addition, please do not refer to differences in percentages as “significant” unless you have done a statistical test.
e. Instead, you can describe patterns by providing some magnitude to differences (e.g., “proportion of Latinos in target community is twice as large as that for the county (25% vs. 11.4%)” or “approximately one-quarter of residents in the target community are Latino compared to only 11.4% in the county”)
f. Describe patterns in your data but you don’t need to comment on what resources are needed for your program and evaluation as it is too soon to do that.Describe patterns in your data but you don’t need to comment on what resources are needed for your program and evaluation as it is too soon to do that
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