Community Health Assessment

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    Spiritual Needs

    Spiritual Needs Assessment Crystal Fore Grand Canyon University: HLT 310v – Spirituality in Health Care July 20, 2014 Spiritual Needs Assessment In health care, nurses and other professionals are involved in the medical care of patients, which while nurses and others have dealt with the physical ailments of patients, the emotional and spiritual aspect of care can be easily forgotten. Professionals know that it is important to care for individuals as a whole as all parts need to be nourished

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    Phoenix Center

    Performance Improvement(Phoenix Center n.d) Phoenix Center Behavioral Health Services was established in 1970. This organization has provided services for over 30,000 adults, children and adolescents, and families for the past 40 years in the Middle Georgia area. Phoenix center is a Not for Profit community care giver. Donations are received to help serve the local community. This public corporation was created by the Georgia General Assembly to address the needs of children

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    Wgu Task 1

    C228 – Community Health Nursing – Task 1 Student’s Name Western Governors University Identification of Community Nestled in Southern Indiana just west of Louisville, Kentucky and south of Indianapolis, Indiana is Dubois County, Indiana. Dubois County is comprised of the towns of Birdseye, Ferdinand, Holland, Huntingburg and Jasper. Of those towns, Jasper is the largest and is the county seat (Kelly School of Business, 2014). Over fifty-two percent of the population

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    Health Promotion

    Health Promotion Initially when health promotion was developed it grew and improved the healthy status and health conditions of the public. Health promotion is a relationship between actions, knowledge, attitudes, and behavior and health outcomes from the individual to the societal level. In the past the focus was more on disease prevention and control of communicable disease, when contagious and communicable disease like measles, polio and small pox were present. As government and health care agencies

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    Messi

    Risk in Sport Assignment 1:Legislative, Legal, and Procedures in Health and safety | Learning Outcomes:1 & 3 | Criteria: P1, P2,P4, M1,M3, D2 | (Please tick where evidence has been submitted) Evidence you need to submit | Tick in box if submitted | | Deliver a PowerPoint Presentation and speaker notes | | Task 1 | Summary of four legislative factors, legal factors and regulatory bodies that influence health and safety in sport | | Task 2 | Summary of three procedures used

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    Nur408 Neighborhood News Article

    Neighborhood News Articles The terms public health and community health have been interchanged when referring to community-based or community-oriented nursing. Public health can be defined as measures taken by a society to ensure healthy conditions of the people (Lancaster & Stanhope, 2008). Public health focuses on the community or population as a whole and includes people who are “free-living” and institutionalized. Public health also works closely with the government, which creates scientific-based

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    Building a Ethical Organization

    crisis. In 2002, Charles G. Curie, Administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHA) within the U.S. Department of Mental Health and Human Services (DHHS), stated that addressing the needs of persons with occurring disorders had become one of the highest priorities for the agency. The two systems of care have different approaches to identifying key symptoms, making assessments or diagnosis, deciding between quiet disparate treatment approaches and figuring out

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    Windshield Survey Analysis

    Windshield survey is the process of walking/driving around a community to abreast with firsthand information or the characteristics of the population and infrastructure as well as well as potential health risks of the population in a defined area. Stanhope and Landcaster (2013) explained windshield survey as “equivalent of a community head-to-toe assessment” (p.220). In this study, I drove through this community understudy three times, days and night, because of its’ large area size. The following

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    Case Study: The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

    The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation represents over one hundred and fifty Aboriginal communities across Australia (NAACHO 2014). NAACHO works with communities through using approaches such as planning, holistic approaches, policy development and implementation, aboriginal cultural integrity, and equity. “NACCHO represents local Aboriginal community control at a national level to ensure that Aboriginal people have greater access to effective health care across Australia”

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    Developing a Spiritual Assessment Toolbox

    Developing a Spiritual Assessment Toolbox A. Wilmer Developing a Spiritual Assessment Toolbox Summary When a client’s spirituality is an active component of his belief system and culture, assessing his quality of life from a mental health perspective would not be complete without an accurate assessment of his spiritual needs (Hodge, 2005). Experts are stating that a holistic approach to counseling incorporates both psychological and spiritual assessments (Hodge, 2005). The accrediting body

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