Healthy Community
“What is a Healthy Community”
Instructions
In this assignment, you will begin to explore a community-based organization around which you will develop the major assignment for this course: a proposed legislative/ policy advocacy plan that employs a stakeholder analysis-based community needs assessment and specific measures for advocating (e.g., political outreach, social marketing) and evaluating the proposed plan.
After reading and reflecting on this unit’s readings and other learning assets, write a paper that speaks to the organization and a particular program or goal you will address. As you did in your discussion posts, please use section headers. In your paper. discuss:
How does your organization define its “community,” and under what standards or elements is that defined?
How does the organization define “health” of that community, and what standards or definitions does it use to do so?
How do YOU see “community” and “health” in the context of the organization you are analyzing? Has the organization missed important definitions or contexts?
This assignment should be 2-3 pages single-spaced, in APA Editorial Format with proper reference citations.
Healthy Communities and Advocacy
Program Learning Outcomes
PLO 2. Impact the health outcomes of communities from the use of data gained from the appraisal of their essential services.
PLO 3. Create solutions for public health concerns found in diverse communities by assessing their major environmental, social, behavioral, cultural, political, legal, and regulatory factors.
Course Learning Outcomes
CLO 4. Critically evaluate a specific policy, initiative, or program advanced by a community-based healthcare/public health organization. (ties to PLO 2)
CLO 6. Articulate and differentiate the purpose and primary goals of major health promotion/education programs (e.g., Health People 2020, Health Communities Institute, WHO Healthy Cities Initiative, etc.). (ties to PLO 3)
Module Learning Outcomes
MLO 6. Design and propose a comprehensive legislative/policy advocacy plan that incorporates the findings of a program evaluation, stakeholder analysis, and community needs assessment, including a means of evaluating the program’s outcome. (ties to CLO 4)
MLO 9. Analyze and differentiate major government and non-government health promotion and education programs and their purposes. (ties to CLO 6)
MLO 10. Assess and differentiate the connection between these programs’ efforts and local health promotion/public health programs. (ties to CLO 6)
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One of the most effective community based organization around is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (Bryson, 2011). This is a program by the United Nations that is tasked with the responsibility of protecting and supporting refugees. Basically, it does this after it has been requested by a given government whose country has the refugees who go to the other countries due to different reasons like civil war………………..
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