With the increasing number of health issues in the United States and Worldwide, there is an ever-growing need for scientific intervention in order to improve the population’s health (CDC, 2012). Evidence based research is being used by many public health officials to implement evidence based approaches towards solving the major health issues that affect so […]
Many quality improvement techniques for smoking cessations—including the promotion of evidence-based treatments and well-coordinated methods for the reduction of tobacco treatment—can improve health outcomes, but their influence is often limited by factors beyond clinicians’ control, such as smokers’ education, employment, and social support. The community health problem is the concern that many of the […]
The one advantage of involving community in the implementation process of a survey is that any external errors pertaining to the survey process can easily be detected. Community members know their community, and can help in preventing irrelevant information that might otherwise exist in the survey process. One challenge of involving community in the implementation […]
The one advantage of conducting community health survey is how effectively it can be used in examining the community demographic, collection of socioeconomic data, and the health-related factors concerning community members’ behaviors. An example of how advantageous community public health survey can be used, is the study of how smoking during pregnancy may cause many […]
Community health assessment via data collection and analysis is an essential constituent of community health indoctrination. One benefit of using GIS application is that it is effective in gathering community-based information about given community to understand health issues at the proletarian level (Graham, Carlton, Gaede, & Jamison, 2011). One limitation of using GIS application is the limiting capacity in […]
One benefit of using asset mapping is that it is an efficient instrument for the conception and understanding of the richness of faculty and resources that exists in a community. Asset mapping is important even in small communities with few members or of a community suffering from poverty and economic anguish (Beaulieu & Southern Rural […]
A study by Ku & Kegels (2014) was aimed at investigating variances in diabetes knowledge, attitudes and perceptions (KAP), self-care practices as related to assessment of chronic illness care among people with diabetes consulting, in a family physician-led tertiary hospital-based out-patient clinic versus local government health unit-based health centers in the Philippines. Interviewers were performed using questionnaires revised from […]
As a public health professional, it is likely that you will conduct focus groups as part of community health assessments. Focus groups are useful when exploring community issues and developing good survey questions. As with all research, planning the focus group is important so that the data you seek can be easily and reliably collected […]
In the field of public health, qualitative data can paint a detailed picture of public health problems, contributing factors, communities, and community needs. Qualitative data may be used to inform researchers about what to measure next, and provide richness to existing quantitative data by offering an understanding of a community’s true experiences. Collecting qualitative data […]
Public health research has traditionally focused on problems, deficiencies, disease, and contributing factors to public health problems. In recent years, community health assessments have also included community assets or resources. The process of identifying these contributions to the public health of a community is called asset mapping. One strategy for identifying assets is geographic information system […]
