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1. Identification Of A Population In Your Community
Identification Of A Population In Your CommunityIdentification Of A Population In Your
CommunityOverview: As a community of practice, your task for this week is to collaborate
with professionals across the health care system. With your community of practice, in the
Discussion, find a gap in care or social determinant that often results in poor health care
outcomes. You will begin to take the lead in advocating for and collaborating with others to
improve the health care outcomes for populations at risk.ORDER COMPREHENSIVE
SOLUTION PAPERS ON Identification Of A Population In Your CommunityPracticum
Discussion: During this week, you will identify a population at risk in your community. This
population will be the basis for your Practicum Discussions and your individual
presentations over the next 6 weeks, as well as the focus of your final
PowerPoint presentation in Week 6. To review, a population is a group of individuals who
share a common environmental or personal characteristic, such as obese individuals who
are at risk for diabetes or cardiovascular disease (populations at risk) or those individuals
who are otherwise healthy and could stay healthy if they do not develop risky behaviors
(populations of interest). An example of this is teenagers who don’t yet smoke but might
consider it due to peer pressure (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2016). Some of the topics you
might consider are vaccination compliance, obesity rates among children and
adults, teenage pregnancy, or infectious diseases such as Norwalk virus, genital warts, or
sexually transmitted diseases/infections. You might look also at emerging public health
problems such as Chagas or the Zika virus. Some of the places you might consider looking
for information to substantiate and support your ideas about populations at risk in
your communities are your local health department, the CDC, and the many evidence-
based websites that the CDC supports, such as the CDC Wonder (http://wonder.cdc.gov/).
You may also review the work of other community groups that focus on improving health
care outcomes for your community. You should begin to support your selection of
population and ideas about their health care problems through the use of health data and
scholarly literature.Please address the following points in your Practicum Discussion:Briefly
describe your community and then describe your practice setting.What are the
determinants of health in your
community? (https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-
measures/Determinants-of-Health)What are the most prevalent health problems in your
community or in your practice?Choose a population at risk and describe the health problem
specific to that population. Remember t
