Author: Cassandra Broglio Hartell Publisher: ISBN: Category : Nursing Languages : en Pages : 134
Book Description
The maternal and neonatal mortality rates in the United States are the highest in the developed world. Sources believe major contributors to this loss of life are poor preconception health, lack of access to high-quality healthcare, and social determinants of health. The use of community health organizations and improving the quality of community resources may improve the health of mothers and children within a geographic region. A local maternal child health (MCH) organization in the southeastern United States struggles to provide services to promote healthy living among pregnant women, postpartum women, and their families. Due to worsening MCH factors in the region, the organization chose to assess the needs of the pregnant people and families in the community. A Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) was conducted to discover gaps in the prenatal, postpartum, and early infant services provided by the organization. The CHNA was used to assess community knowledge and utilization of services and to identify common healthcare barriers reported by the community. An electronic survey was available September 2, 2021, through December 14, 2021, and participants were able to volunteer to conduct a personal interview. Four individuals completed an interview. Twenty-two providers and 137 community members submitted the electronic survey. The most common healthcare barriers identified by the community were lack of access to obstetric and pediatric healthcare services and an inability to pay for healthcare services. Organization service gaps identified included accessing healthcare services, mental health services, labor and birth support, and child care classes. Community knowledge and utilization of the organization’s services was low. The CHNA was successful in recruiting community participation and identifying gaps in the services provided by the organization. However, the survey’s sample population failed to capture the multicultural diversity of the community, possibly missing the voices of the most vulnerable families in this area. The organization must create short- and long-term goals to address the needs of the community. This may entail partnering with other local health organizations and instigating face-to-face marketing to increase community awareness of the services the organization provides.
Author: Robert Black Publisher: World Bank Publications ISBN: 1464803684 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 419
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The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. Volume 3 focuses on developments since the publication of DCP2 and will also include the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume. The DCP3 evaluation of these conditions produced three key findings: 1. There is significant difficulty in measuring the burden of key conditions such as unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, nonsexually transmitted infections, infertility, and violence against women. 2. Investments in the continuum of care can have significant returns for improved and equitable access, health, poverty, and health systems. 3. There is a large difference in how RMNCH conditions affect different income groups; investments in RMNCH can lessen the disparity in terms of both health and financial risk.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309055342 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 497
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How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities. With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority. Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts in the right direction. Within a broad definition of community health, the committee addresses factors surrounding the implementation of performance monitoring and explores the "why" and "how to" of establishing mechanisms to monitor the performance of those who can influence community health. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues. Improving Health in the Community presents an attainable vision of a process that can achieve community-wide health benefits.
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309452961 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 583
Book Description
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author: Fernando I. Soriano Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 1452289883 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
This thoroughly revised edition of the best-selling book Conducting Needs Assessment offers a brief, how-to guide that demystifies the process of planning a community intervention by helping both students and practitioners understand how to plan and conduct a needs assessment. Coverage includes planning the needs assessment, including the variety of methods used, survey methods and sample sizes, data collection and analysis, and reporting the findings. To aid students' understanding, Soriano engages the students in the process of planning a community intervention by using clear, real-world examples and basic terms that have been updated to reflect current issues and HIPPA regulations.
Author: Carolyn O. Sharbaugh Publisher: ISBN: Category : Child health services Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
Contains the workshop proceedings that served as a forum for identifying current needs and issues in maternal and child nutrition services, reaching a consensus on priorities, developing key recommendations, and outlining specific actions and strategies that should be taken to implement recommendations.
Author: Bryan Samuels Publisher: ISBN: Category : Community development Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
This guide describes a systematic way of identifying the resources and needs of community residents by gathering data, soliciting the perspectives of residents and leaders, and surveying service providers and other community resources. Part 1 of the guide differentiates community assessment from traditional needs assessments and details the 5-step community assessment process: (1) establishing a community planning team; (2) defining community boundaries; (3) developing a statistical profile, including determining what information to collect, gathering the data, and analyzing the data; (4) assessing needs from residents' perspectives; and (5) assessing community resources through provider surveys, association surveys, consumer surveys, and community mapping. Part 2 deals with sorting through the large body of information to set community priorities, focusing on the use of a community assessment matrix to provide a framework for analysis. Two appendices provide (1) guidelines for developing a resident survey and (2) copies of the surveys and other tools described in the guide. (KB)
Author: National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine Publisher: ISBN: 9780309685061 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The decade ahead will test the nation's nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways. Nurses live and work at the intersection of health, education, and communities. Nurses work in a wide array of settings and practice at a range of professional levels. They are often the first and most frequent line of contact with people of all backgrounds and experiences seeking care and they represent the largest of the health care professions. A nation cannot fully thrive until everyone - no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make - can live their healthiest possible life, and helping people live their healthiest life is and has always been the essential role of nurses. Nurses have a critical role to play in achieving the goal of health equity, but they need robust education, supportive work environments, and autonomy. Accordingly, at the request of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, on behalf of the National Academy of Medicine, an ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a study aimed at envisioning and charting a path forward for the nursing profession to help reduce inequities in people's ability to achieve their full health potential. The ultimate goal is the achievement of health equity in the United States built on strengthened nursing capacity and expertise. By leveraging these attributes, nursing will help to create and contribute comprehensively to equitable public health and health care systems that are designed to work for everyone. The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity explores how nurses can work to reduce health disparities and promote equity, while keeping costs at bay, utilizing technology, and maintaining patient and family-focused care into 2030. This work builds on the foundation set out by The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2011) report.
Author: Ruth C. White Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers ISBN: 0763781533 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 362
Book Description
Maternal and Child Health (MCH) continues to be one of the most important fields of study for improving the health of populations across the globe. Two the 10 Millennium Development Goals strive specifically to improve maternal and child health, and several others, such as gender equality and HIV/AIDS, are critical aspects of Maternal and Child Health. Written for students in public health, medical, and allied health professions, Global Case Studies in Maternal and Child Health brings to life theoretical and conceptual ideas discussed in primary texts, through the analysis of lived stories of maternal and child health programs around the world. Using structured case studies of community-based programs in maternal and child health from around the world, students will be presented with real-life ethical, practical and theoretical challenges that will develop critical and analytical thinking skills and also provide them with practice models that they can use in their future or present work.
Author: Cassandra Broglio Hartell
Author: Robert Black
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Author: Fernando I. Soriano
Author: Carolyn O. Sharbaugh
Author: Bryan Samuels
Author: World Health Organization
Author: National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Author: Ruth C. White