Chapter 11-15 Flashcards
What is the definition of community?
Group of people/aggregate who live in the same area with identified boundaries
What is the definition of geopolitical?
Sharing geographic boundaries and governing structures
What is the definition of phenomenological
Sharing, interest, or belief/enter and intrapersonal connections
Church community underserved population
What is the definition of communities of solution?
Formed by a group of people to address, common interest, beliefs, or needs
What is a society nation or international or global communities?
Broader general context, shared government(US) global(shared interest in health and safety)
What are community assessments used for?
Understand who is at risk who may need social support after a traumatic event
What do community assessments include?
Examination of a specific group of people and their influence
Biologic, psychological, sociology, cultural and environmental influences
Is there a specific framework/model or a particular approach to assessing a community?
It depends on the type of community to be assessed
Who uses framework or combinations of framework together community data
 nurses, social workers epidemiologist, genetic counselors
 what is the epidemiologic approach to community assessment?
Help identify patterns of health and iniquity to assist in determining trends
Describing the health of a population
Determining relationships that can predict health and illness
Developing and testing interventions and power communities to affect change
What is the geographical information system
Drawing relationships and associations important to community assessment
Visual maps of deficiencies in the USA
What is a community report report card?
Provide a snapshot of overall health and well-being of the community, using indicators of local social and health trends
Ex.
Health is a community
Safety of the community
Access to healthcare
Economics of the community
 public health, nurses community assessments are often what
Informal
What is the windshield survey?
Observation of a community while driving a car or riding public transit to collect data up for community assessment
Often referred to as learning about a community on foot
The community as partner framework uses, what kind of approach
A systems approach with a focus on partnership to effect change
Eight parts of a community are interdependent systems what are they
Physical environment
Health and social services
Economy
Transportation
Safety
Politics and government
Communication
Education
Recreation
What is the functional health status approach?
Evaluates functional health patterns in the community, a deliberate and systemic approach
In the functional health status approach what is assessment used as
A form of evaluation
In a functional health status approach what is pattern represented by
Represents a configuration of behaviors
In the functional health status approach what is understanding
Understanding of the patterns allows insight to help groups, respond to a problem, and how they react to a problem
What is the developmental approach?
Use of retrospective historical approach to understand, cultural changes over time to provide information for future initiatives
What can looking at a past historical report describe
Cultural changes within the community or aggregate overtime and helps to plan for the future
What is the assets based approach?
Identifies community resources and strengths along with the community needs
What is the collaborative model?
Involves assessment by an interdisciplinary team and members of the community