Public Health Assessment

This activity provides students with the resources and methods to conduct a community assessment. Performing a community assessment involves getting to know and understand the community as client.Phase One – Defining the CommunityWho is the community assessed? A clear definition must be provided of who is being assessed and where they are located.Phase Two – Community AssessmentPhase two is the focus of this activity.The goal of assessment is to gather and generate data and then analyze and synthesize the data to identify significant themes or trends.A. Data gathering involves compiling information that already exists.B. During data generation, information that does not already exist is collected from the community.C. Data analysis and synthesis should result in discovery of community health problems and community health strengths.Assignment FilesConducting a Community Health AssessmentDownload Conducting a Community Health Assessment[PDF]Resources for City, County, and State DemographicsDownload Resources for City, County, and State Demographics[PDF]Generating Data for a Community Health AssessmentDownload Generating Data for a Community Health Assessment[PDF]Writing a Nursing Diagnosis for Public HealthDownload Writing a Nursing Diagnosis for Public Health[PDF]Writing APA GuideDownload Writing APA Guide[PDF]