Community Assessment Process
This occurs as the first step in the evaluation of the community intervention.
What are developing evaluation questions?
This is a specific population that the nurse chooses when completing a community assessment.
What is an aggregate?
This core population health function occurs when completing a community assessment.
What is assessment?
Others include assurance and policy development.
These are included in the WHO's Social Determinants of Health recommendations.
What are: (1) improve the conditions under which all people are born, grow, live, work, and age to minimum standards; (2) ensure more equitable distribution of power, money, and resources; and (3) expand knowledge of the social determinants of health and establish a system to measure and monitor health inequity.
This is the first step in the community assessment process.
What is assessment (gathering data)?
Examples of this include an unstable economy due to closed businesses, lack of healthcare access, increase poverty, and poor-quality schools.
What are community stressors?
These need to be assessed in order to fund a project.
What are accountability, sustainability, and program replication?
Once the data has been gathered, analyzed, and community diagnosis is created, this is the next step the nurse takes.
What is creating a community-based plan?
Examples of this data source include informant interviews, community forums, current health surveys, and focus groups.
What is primary (direct) data?
This data source is the most comprehensive source.
What is the census bureau data?
What is government (federal) agencies?
The nurse has the community diagnosis, this is what the nurse does next.
What is creating measurable community goals of health?
Examples of this type of data source include birth and death certificates, medical records, past health surveys, morbidity/mortality statistics.
What is secondary data?
This type of evaluation focuses on how well the program was implemented and looks at processes, activities, and capacity building.
What is process evaluations?
Examples of this type of funding include Robert Wood Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
What is private funding?
The data analysis has been completed, this is what the nurse does next.
What is developing the community diagnosis?
Community outcomes should be this type of outcome.
What is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound)?
This type of evaluation focuses on the extent to which the intervention achieved its objectives for knowledge, skills, or health behavior and improvement in community health status.
What is outcome evaluation?
Examples of this type of funding include local bank branches, local places of worship, local businesses, and local sections of national civic groups.
What are local resources?