What is the demographic data of your community as given on the U.S. Census Bureau website?

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The development of diseases or the state of wellness and health are influenced by social, economic, environmental, and demographic factors of a population. As such, population statistics play a major role in determining the health status of a community or the distribution of diseases within that community.

You are the public health officer or health care administrator in charge of finding a prevention and intervention program to address public health issues in your community. You have been asked by your supervisor to create a report on the public health issue that you will be working for.

Based on your findings, express your views on the following:

  • What are the health problems or issues currently impacting your community?
  • What is the demographic data of your community as given on the U.S. Census Bureau website?
  • According to the data related to morbidity, mortality, and prevalence, what are the incidence rates of the diseases in your community?
  • What are the health care requirements of the community?
  • How do you plan to assist in the prevention and intervention programs of your community?

Public Health Campaign

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Communication Plan

Part of the planning process is creating a communication plan document. The communication plan is a detailed outline of your public health campaign and includes all the elements from planning, communications, marketing, and public relations to evaluation. It is also an iterative process and you must be willing to make adjustments to the plan as necessary.For this Application Assignment, use the Communication Plan Guidelines handout located in this week’s learning resources to begin drafting Part I of the Communication Plan. You will complete the remaining parts throughout the weeks of this course. Please note the completed Communication Plan will be due in Week 10.Submit the assignment: Part I: Public Health Campaign (3–4 pages) by Day 7

Your Communication Plan is the document which outlines all the elements of your public health campaign to help guide you in its facilitation. Please use this document as an outline to complete your Communication Plan. Use the learning resources and the current literature to support your Communication Plan.

Part I: Public Health Campaign (3-4 pages)

  • Briefly describe the public health issue you selected and justify your selection
  • Identify the audience you wish to target
  • Justify the target audience you selected
  • Briefly describe and justify the theory in which you will use to support your campaign
  • Explain the initial methods you plan to use to create your public health campaign and explain why you selected those methods
  • Briefly describe your goals for implementing a public health campaign (creating social change, changing behavior, increasing awareness, etc.)

Public Health Campaign Websites

  • Web Resource: It’s Your (Sex) Life (2016). Retrieved from http://www.itsyoursexlife.com/
  • Web Resource: Quit Now Virginia (2016). Retrieved from http://www.vdh.state.va.us/LHD/richmondcity/chroni…
  • Web Resource: Re3.org (2016). Retrieved from http://www.re3.org/
  • Web Resource: Wyoming Quit Tobacco Program (2016). Retrieved from https://wyo.quitlogix.org/
  • Web Resource: The One & Only Campaign (2016). Retrieved from: http://www.oneandonlycampaign.org/

Health care transformation: The Affordable Care Act

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Please write a Paragraph answering to this discussion below with your opinion. Please include citations and references in alphabetical order in case of another source.

In March of 2010 the Affordable Care Act was enacted, this was designed to ensure that everyone had access to health care and more affordable health care. It original design was to realign and encourage collaboration between health and healthcare system (Public Health, n.d.). One of the initiatives was a Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program. This was to attempt to make sure that there were enough nurses to care for these patients. The incentive of having loan repayment would cost the participant three year commitment to public health agency, the Health & Human Service Department offers a repayment program (American Nurses Association, 2014).

With the scholarships and loan repayment programs, this encourages primary care providers, dentists, mental health care providers and nurses to commit to communities that are in need of their services. We are familiar with this with Native Health and is now bridging over to other public health offices.

As a nurse with a role in providing health care to the population they are able to support the long term care for these patients. Many of the patients that benefit from public health assistance are the mentally ill, the low income, mothers and babies, and the elderly. I have personally noticed an increase in the number of public health nurses and they are getting out into the community teaching and caring for the community.

Reference:

American Nurses Association. (2014). Health care transformation: The Affordable Care Act and more. Found at: www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCatagories.Policy-Advocacy/HealthSystemReform/AffordableCareAct.pdf.

What are the most important elements of the Affordable Care Act in relation to community and public health

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Please do a paragraph about this post with this instruction .

post most have  4 or more  sentences .

you also have to have a high quality post from a content perspective. This means it also needs to do more than agree with or praise a class mate. If you agree with a classmate, explain why, give an example, share what you learned in the readings

What are the most important elements of the Affordable Care Act in relation to community and public health? What is the role of the nurse in implementing this law?

In my opinion, I feel the most important elements to the community and public health are:

Ending the pre-existing clause, allowing people who have had disease in the past have coverage.  Having a big surgery or ongoing health issue can wipe out a family financially very quickly. Then what, no money, no insurance, no hope.

Ending the life-long limits, this goes with the above, we can’t stop treating someone because they went over the spending limit.

The Prevention and Public Health Fund that invests in keeping American health. It said $15 million started in 2010. This is in the form on community health centers to provide education, help and assistance to low income.  Although, education should be given to every patient, regardless of income status.

And of course providing insurance coverage to everyone, so no one has to be without health care.

By investing in our future with higher education we are helping with health care reform with improving the “supply and distribution” (ANA) There are grants available and loan forgiveness for those who qualify and want to become advanced practice nurses, nurse practitioners, mid-wives, etc.

Nurses also need to be aware of their role and scope of practice so they are better able to provide for their patients.

Nurses need to take an active role in their state to provide input with benchmarking, and governing boards. This helps determine regulation, and what is accessible to patients.  Nurses advocate for patients and their needs. This is in every realm of health care, from a clinic, to hospital all the way up to making laws and passing regulation at the state and national level.  Some law makers are only thinking money and nurses put the patient into the equation.

Nurses can also be a part of research to determine best practice, high quality care and patient safety for every patient without judgment.  Nurses, especially public health nurses are on the front lines of helping many navigate through getting the services they need. Nurses need to know what is available to them.