\”Community Health Profile Paper
Purpose
Creating a community health profile facilitates planning and implementation of interventions that address priority health issues and improve health outcomes.
Instructions
1. Select a specific community/geographical area to examine.
2. Access online resources for data regarding health status indicators for your community/geographical area.
3. Access the Healthy People 2020 website and familiarize yourself with the content.
a. Review the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/social-determinants-of-health.
b. Use the five key determinant areas to organize SDOH profile information for your community/geographical area.
4. Select and examine a health care topic to analyze within the context of the selected community of focus. For example, after completing the community-level health profile, you may choose to examine the prevalence of obesity within the community.
5. Perform a windshield survey of your selected community and focus your survey activity to include your health care topic. Complete an asset/gap map of resources.
Guidelines for Paper
1. Create a population-based health profile of your community and analyze your health care topic within the context of the community.
2. Outline:
a. Introduction
b. Health profile of the community
c. Health care topic
d. Analysis of health care topic within context of community health profile
e. Evaluation of the role of the DNP APN in promoting healthy communities
f. Conclusion
3. Format:
a. Paper length 8-10 pages, not including title and reference pages
b. Minimum 10 references, current within 5 years
c. APA format and style, Times New Roman, 12 Font\”
