Describe a subgroup from your community

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a 4- to 6-page paper outlining a focus group protocol:

Describe a subgroup from your community (include relevant demographics such as gender, socioeconomic status, age).
Restate the public health problem in the community health profile you created in Week 5.
Create six questions for the focus group related to the identified public health problem (e.g., contributing factors, potential solutions, assets available to solve the problem).
Describe methods you would use for recruiting participants and collecting and managing the data. Explain why these methods would be effective.
Create a brief (two-paragraph) consent form that summarizes the reason for the focus group, procedures to be followed, participants’ rights, and procedures for maintaining confidentiality

References

Jorgensen, S., Thorlby, R., Weinick, R. M., & Ayanian, J. Z. (2010). Responses of Massachusetts hospitals to a state mandate to collect race, ethnicity and language data from patients: a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research, 10(35), 352–360.
Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.
Nguyen, T.-U. N., Tran, J. H., Kagawa-Singer, M., & Foo, M. (2011). A qualitative assessment of community-based breast health navigation services for Southeast Asian women in Southern California: Recommendations for developing a navigator training curriculum. American Journal of Public Health, 101(1), 87–93.
Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.
Tomasik, T., Windak, A., Domagala, A., Dubas, K., Sumskas, L., & Rosinski, J. (2011). An evaluation of family physicians’ educational needs and experiences in health promotion and disease prevention in Poland and Lithuania: A qualitative study. BMC Family Practice, 12(13). Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/12/13
University of Kansas. (2012). The Community Tool Box: Assessing community needs and resources.
Section 6, “Conducting Focus Groups.” Available at http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1018.aspx
University of Kansas. (2012). The Community Tool Box: Assessing community needs and resources.
Section 12, “Conducting Interviews.” Available at http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/section_1047.aspx
World Health Organization. (2012). Informed consent form templates. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/rpc/research_ethics/informed_consent/en/

Describe how nurses can become more broadly involved with influencing health policy related to this issue

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In your Collaborative Learning Community, write a paper of 500-1,000 words and include the following:

Assess the past and present impact nurses, including advanced professional/advanced practice nurses, have made in addressing this health issue.
Describe how nurses can become more broadly involved with influencing health policy related to this issue. Include resources available.
Hypothesize how nurses can positively impact future outcomes related to the provision of care for persons affected by the health issue.
Synthesize all aspects of the health care issue through a summary conclusion, concisely tying up Parts 1-6 of the CLC – Health Issue Analysis.

This is APA format, 3 references, I have attached topics 1-5 that is needed for this CLC project

Topic 1
Influenza CLC group essay 11-28-2017
Introduction
Influenza commonly known as flu is a contagious respiratory infection that attacks the general respiratory system that is, the nose, throat, and even the lungs. It is caused by the two types of influenza viruses which are influenza A, influenza B and influenza C (Wang & Tao, 2010). Attacks from both viruses are epidemic and seasonal as they are common within specific periods within a year. Attack mechanisms for influenza A viruses depends on the genes on the surface protein of a patient. They are normally spread through sneezing and coughing from an infected individual to the surrounding air (Wang & Tao, 2010).
The flu can also attack an individual in case they get into direct body tissue contact with an infected individual for example handshaking. Health professionals argue that the flu virus is stubborn and spreads mainly over tiny droplets which are produced when the infected individuals’ cough, talk, and sneeze (Wang & Tao, 2010). Such droplets are easily carried by the surrounding air and can be landed in the nose and mouths of the immediate persons. Additionally, it can enter into one’s system if he or she gets into direct contact with a surface or object that has the influenza bacteria and consequently rubs or touches their nose, mouth or even eyes (Wang & Tao, 2010).
Health departments have overtime identified initiative to address the problem of influenza, such initiatives include:
Reducing human exposure to the flu viruses, this initiative works by notifying the public on the safe ways to prevent and control the spread of the virus and it actively works to reduce infection opportunities and curbs the spread of the pandemic virus (Abramson, 2011).
They have built able capacities to cope with the pandemic, measures have been taken and put in place to cope with the virus since helping the society to stay free from the virus (Abramson, 2011).
They have innovated much on early warning and acknowledgments, information about influenza and its impacts to the society are made clear since it is effective for the society to stay free from the influenza virus (Abramson, 2011).
Necessary global scientific researches are being carried out and developments to ensure that vaccines and antiviral drugs are available across the globe mostly during the seasons which the virus is spread. The scientific knowledge enables quick and effective identification of the virus at its initial stages (Abramson, 2011).
Several measures have been put in place to measure the progress of the issue. They include;
The World Health Organization has continuously carried out tests to identify cases of attack by the virus at its early stages that are in one to four days of an individual’s exposure to the influenza virus (Tam & Sellwood, 2013).
Materials enlightening the public about the virus and the most convenient ways to stay free from the attack are being developed and provisional with all measures that can help curb and salvage the situation (Tam & Sellwood, 2013).
The current status of the issue based on measures outcomes clarifies that the globe is well up and at a good place to overcome the spread of influenza viruses. This has been made possible by the continuous scientific researchers which develop antiviral drugs and vaccines which are work to stop the spread and impacts of the influenza virus upon the general society (Tam & Sellwood, 2013).
References
Abramson, J. (2011). Inside the 2009 Influenza Pandemic. World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011.
Tam, J., & Sellwood, C. (2013). Pandemic Influenza. CABI, 2013.
Wang, Q., & Tao, Y. (2010). Molecular Virology. Horizon Scientific Press.
Topic 2
Influenza
Diane Boll, Lisa Hart, Risper Ireri
Grand Canyom University:NUR 508
12-06-2017
Influenza
Influenza is a highly infectious respiratory illness that mostly occurs during winter months north of the equator. Influenza, commonly known as the “flu” occurs between October and March and with reported outbreaks between September and May. Signs of influenza include but are not limited to high fever, myalgia, headache, sore throat, chills and persistent malaise (Edelman & Mandle, 2006). Each year in the US alone, influenza and pneumonia result in 114,000 admissions with 36,000 lives lost and costs an estimated $12 billion (Walton, 2016). Edelman and Mandle (2006) discussed the influenza vaccine markedly reduce the incidence of complications, hospitalization, and deaths and the vaccine can be given to anyone above six months unless allergic to it. It’s given with caution to those with allergies to eggs (Edelman & Mandle, 2006). Contrary to misconception, the most common vaccine is not made up of the live influenza virus but composed of the inactivated whole virus or virus subunits grown in chick embryo cells and given annually (Edelman & Mandle, 2006). Influenza is a global issue as many in underprivileged countries without access to adequate health care continue to die from it and there is a need to rapidly identify the virus and provide proper treatment, thereby preventing its spread locally and internationally.
Influence of Health and Socioeconomic Status on Influenza
Though all age groups can contract influenza those with fragile or weakened immune systems are more severely affected and include the pregnant women, elderly adults with comorbidities like diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, malignancy, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. According to Walton (2016), children less than two years have the highest infection rate, but death rates are usually highest among elderly (age 65 and older). Influenza is associated with low social, economic status, lack of preventive treatment and poor housing. Most
of the people affected by influenza lack insurance coverage, have lower levels of education, are unemployed, lack social network and travel long distances to medical facilities (Watson, 2016).
Initiatives

Examine the structure of the U.S. legal system and government as it relates to ethics, law, and core principles of public health

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Competency
Examine the structure of the U.S. legal system and government as it relates to ethics, law, and core principles of public health.
Instructions
You have recently been promoted to Health Services Manager at Three Mountains Regional Hospital, a small hospital located in a mid-size city in the Mid-West. Three Mountains is a general medical and surgical facility with 400 beds. Last year there were approximately 62,000 emergency visits and 15,000 admissions. More than 6,000 outpatient and 10,000 inpatient surgeries were performed.

As a means to build trust between the organization and the patients, you have been tasked with the drafting of a memorandum (memo) to all employees that perform patient intake functions. The focus of this Memo is to highlight the necessary forms that need to be completed during the intake/admissions process and an explanation as to why they are necessary. Often patients are handed a form to fill out, but do not receive a proper explanation as to why it is necessary for them to provide the required information. Without the proper information, patients, more now than ever, are hesitant to provide all of the necessary information. You will need to address the following components in your memo:

Introduction: Explain why you are sending this memo. Provide an overview of the patient trust issues and why it is important for the employees to be able to discuss each of the forms with the patients during the intake process.
List of the Required Forms: List and describe each of the required forms at admission.
Importance of each form to the organization: For each form you list, you will need to add why that form is important to the organization and necessary for the patient to complete.
Conclusion: In this part, you will wrap up the memo and provide additional resources available to the employees if they have further questions.
Proper Memo Formatting:  This a professional document and needs to be structured as a memo and not as an essay. You will still need to supply both in text and full citations for the sources of your information. If you need further assistance with how to structure a memo, click on this link.

NOTE – APA formatting, and proper grammar, punctuation, and form required. APA help is available here.

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In this assignment, you will develop and submit a project plan for a community intervention that addresses a significant public health problem of your choice aside from those topics that have been already addressed in other assignments in this course

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In this assignment, you will develop and submit a project plan for a community intervention that addresses a significant public health problem of your choice aside from those topics that have been already addressed in other assignments in this course. Your project plan must be based on the PRECEDE-PROCEED model and at least two behavior change theories included in this course.

Respond according to the following:

Briefly describe the selected health problem and the population. Be sure to select a health problem that has not already been addressed in other assignments in this course.
Identify key behavioral and environmental risk factors for this health issue in this population.
Describe and justify the selection of at least two theories of health behavior that can be used to address the behavior problem (the theories should be at different levels—i.e., individual, interpersonal, community).
Identify predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors for behavior change based on the theoretical constructs from the preceding step.
Using SMART objectives, develop at least one process and one impact and one outcome objective, and provide a brief overview of an evaluation strategy.

Be creative, but also use scholarly support and appropriate references.

Write a 7-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Assignment Components
1. Briefly describe the selected health problem and the population: 28
2. Identify key behavioral and environmental risk factors for this health issue in this population: 48
3. Describe and justify the selection of at least two theories of health behavior that can be used to address the behavior problem (the theories should be at different levels—i.e., individual, interpersonal, community): 48
4. Identify predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors for behavior change based on the theoretical constructs from the preceding step: 52
5. Using SMART objectives, develop at least one process, one impact, and one outcome objective, and provide a brief overview of an evaluation strategy: 52
6. Academic WritingWrite in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e., APA); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation: 72
Total:300