My risk population is diabetes in African American males, this means that the entire work will be centered around this subject. Please be as specific as possible. Everything needed is provided below. This is a short task, but needs to be well done and straight on topic.
- Chapters 9 and 15 in the textbook, Public Health Nursing: Population-centered Health Care in the Community.
- You may find it helpful to visit the following websites regarding evidence-based, population-focused practice:
- What Works for Health (Find the section Policy or Program.)
- View the video, “Tools to Change our World”
- Prepare to discuss the following prompts:
- Based upon your reading and community assessment experiences identify a population-centered best practice model (Policy or Program, not the Intervention Wheel) or evidence-based approach to care that addresses the needs of a selected at-risk population. A best practice model policy or program is an approach to solving a population-centered problem that has been proven to work and can be used to model a similar idea. State your selection.
- What factors contribute to the vulnerability of the at-risk population you stated?
- How does the identified best practice model or evidence-based approach address the needs of this at-risk population? Specifically, what are two ways through which health disparities are addressed to improve the health status of this at-risk population?
- Considering the Intervention Wheel model of population-focused interventions – and considering the evidence-based approaches you investigated through the web resources above, from the 17 categories, select three categories of population-focused interventions and describe how each would augment efforts in your community to improve population health outcomes for this at-risk population. Explain your selections.
- Research and select at least two current scholarly sources to support your explanations and insights. OCLS resources are preferred sources and can be accessed through IWU Resources. Wikipedia is not permitted, as it is not a peer-reviewed, scholarly source.
- Whether written or spoken, interactions are expected to:
- clearly and thoroughly address the prompt with meaningful information that shows critical thinking.
- introduce your own ideas and questions to add greater depth to the discussion, rather than restating what your classmates have shared. (Include much more than “Great post,” or “I agree.”)
- refer to relevant course concepts as you discuss your learning together.
- develop insightful conversation by directly addressing your classmates’ ideas.
- demonstrate professionalism