Status assessment: report statistics related to birth, death, poverty, crime, and incidence of mental and physical illness.
Structure assessment: include inpatient and outpatient health care facilities, local government structures, schools, law enforcement agencies, retailers, roads, population demographics, socioeconomic status, gender, and age.
Process assessment: include factors such as member commitment, communication patterns, and relationships of the community with the larger surrounding society and how well the community expresses needs for and uses available resources.
Research tips:
To find sources for your community assessment project, read page 344 carefully in your Blais and Hayes textbook.
Identify your community from any areas within Palm Beach, Martin, Broward or Dade County.
After assessing all components of the community, describe what you think the communities weaknesses are and what the communities strengths are. Explain your answers.
Consider each weakness you have identified in the community you studied and give at least one suggestion for creatively turning those weaknesses into strengths. Explain your answers.
Slides should contain bullets, not paragraphs. Use the notes area below the slide to expand the explanation of the bulleted points if necessary.
Examples:
Hospice in Palm Beach County was examined and it was determined that a Skype program would benefit the inpatient population by providing…..
The American Heart Association should offer more CPR classes in the elementary schools within Palm Beach County because…..
