...Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION Community Health and PopulationFocused Nursing (C228) June 29, 2016 1 Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION A. Identification of Community 2 Running head: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION The community that I will be presenting a health assessment status of for this task is Collierville, TN. Collierville is a small active suburban community located in Shelby County, TN near the Memphis Metropolitan area. It is approximately 25 square miles large, located 89.39W longitude and 35.2N latitude with an elevation of 387ft (WorldAtlas.com, 2016). B. Assessment of Needs and Risks I will assess the health needs and risks of Collierville, TN by discussing various epidemiological and demographic data and providing some vital statistics that I found during my research. I will also provide a description of my visual assessment of the community and my own personal knowledge of this community. My experiences with the community of Collierville, TN include living here as a resident for the past 13 years and working as an EMT with EMS prior to living here. During my research, I was able to find the following data to describe the Population and Economic Status Assessment for Collierville, TN. The population is approximately 48,655 for the year 2014 census according to CityData...
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