07 Jun The optional Evidence-Based Population Health Improvement Plan Presentation Template [PPTX] is provided to help you prepare your slides. If you choose to work without the templa
The optional Evidence-Based Population Health Improvement Plan Presentation Template [PPTX] is provided to help you prepare your slides. If you choose to work without the template, consider referring to Creating a Presentation: A Guide to Writing and Speaking and Guidelines for Effective PowerPoint Presentations.
The suggested headings for your presentation are:
- Community Data Evaluation.
- Meeting Community Needs.
- Measuring Outcomes.
- Communication Plan.
- Evidence.
- Evaluate the environmental and epidemiological data about your community to determine a population-focused priority for care.
- Identify the relevant data. This can be communicated in a table or chart.
- Describe the major population health issue suggested by the data within your community.
- Explain how environmental factors affect the health of community residents.
- Identify the level of evidence, validity, and reliability for each source.
- Explain what evidence in the current literature (published within the last five years) supports your evaluation of the data and the population focused priority of care you have selected.
- Develop an ethical health improvement plan with outcome criteria that addresses the population health priority that you identified in your evaluation.
- Consider the environmental realities and challenges existing in the community.
- Include interventions that will meet community needs.
- Address potential barriers or misunderstandings related to various cultures prevalent in the community.
- Propose criteria that can be used to evaluate the achievement of the plan's outcomes for your population health improvement.
- Explain why your proposed criteria are appropriate and useful measures of success.
- Explain a plan to collaborate with a specific community organization to support the implementation of the population health improvement in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way.
- Identify the community stakeholders that are relevant to your Population Health Improvement Plan.
- Develop a clear communication strategy that is mindful of the cultural and ethical expectations of colleagues and community members regarding data privacy.
- Ensure that your strategy enables you to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to members of the community regardless of disabilities, language, or level of education.
- Explain the value and relevance of the evidence and technology resources used as the basis of a population health improvement plan.
- Explain why the evidence is valuable and relevant to the community health concern you are addressing.
- Explain why each piece of evidence is appropriate and informs the goal of improving the health of the community.
- Communicate the Evidence-Based Population Health Improvement Plan in a professional, effective manner that engages the community organization stakeholders and the community-at-large to implement and sustain change.
- What specific actions can the community stakeholders take themselves to build a feeling of community ownership in your plan?
Evidence-Based Population Health Improvement Plan: Obesity
Student’s Name
NURS-FPX6011
Submission date
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Community Data Evaluation
The disease burden related to obesity is very high in the Alabama community and continues to rise.
Data shows that approximately 39% of the adult population have obesity.
This was up from 36.1% in 2019 and 22.6% in 2000.
The rate of obesity among high school students stands at 17.2%.
According to (Lee, Cardel & Donahoo, 2015), environmental factors such as geography, food availability and infrastructure can lead to obesity.
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The data shows that there are very many adults with obesity in the community and the trend is alarming as evidenced by the steep growth between 2019 and 2020.
Although the prevalence of obesity in the community is attributed to lifestyle choices, environmental factors are also responsible for its prevalence.
Research shows that obesity prevalence differs by geographical region with some areas having very high levels of obesity among adults (Lee, Cardel & Donahoo, 2015).
For instance, urban areas unlike rural areas have high rates of obesity due to their proximity to supermarkets and fast food joints.
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Community Data
Obesity trends in the community
2000 2019 2020 0.22600000000000001 0.36099999999999999 0.39
Meeting Community Needs
The intervention that can be used to meet community needs regarding preventing obesity is education.
The community will be educated on the best way to prevent obesity such as eating healthy, reducing caloric diet and exercising regularly (Wadden, Tronieri & Butryn, 2020).
For those who are already struggling with obesity, similar intervention will be used in addition to providing psychological support from trained healthcare professionals.
The main potential barrier or misunderstanding is lack of knowledge about obesity but this can be leveraged by educating the community on how to prevent and or manage the diseases.
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In addition to the intervention, adults will be encouraged to go for obesity screening so that they can be advised early on how to manage the disease.
In case lifestyle changes do not help especially for those who are struggling with obesity, trained healthcare professionals can recommend medication.
The medication will help the people to reduce the amount of fat that their bodies absorb during digestion.
Education is a very important intervention because it will ensure that community understands how to live healthy lives by keeping their weights in check and eating healthy diets.
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Measuring Outcomes
The criteria that will be evaluated is the rate of lifestyle change in the community.
Lifestyle changes entails increased physical activity and weight loss in the population.
Recommendations for lifestyle modification has been advanced by several experts.
Some of the modifications include introducing low-calorie diet based on the individual bodies of people.
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The criterion is appropriate because it focuses on the issue of appetite and body weight which are at the center of obesity debate.
For instance, by encouraging regular physical activity, the body can burn calories and increase increase its metabolic rate thus reducing body fat.
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Communication Plan
The community stakeholders that are relevant to the population health improvement plan are those who represent different community interests and sectors.
The stakeholders include household heads, local leadership and community health workers.
Traditional methods of communication will be used to engage the stakeholders.
The methods include community meetings, posters and banners.
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The stakeholders are selected based on their interest and rapport with the community.
They will also provide first-hand knowledge on how obesity affects members of the community.
The use of traditional methods of communication is appropriate because it will help gain the inputs of every stakeholder and understand how they would want to be productively engaged.
For instance, the use of community meetings will help to make complex medical terms and concepts more understandable to members of the community because they will also have a chance to seek clarification.
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Value & Relevance of Evidence
The evidence used as the basis of the population health improvement plan are relevant because they provide additional information to support the facts and proposals made for the plan.
Alabama Public Health provides valuable data on obesity to help understand the severity of the disease and the need to address it
Lee, Cardel and Donahoo, (2015) provides comprehensive evidence of the social and environmental factors that contribute to obesity which enables a better understanding of the obesity epidemic in the community.
Wadden, Tronieri and Butryn (2020) offers comprehensive guide on how lifestyle modifications can prevent obesity.
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Lee, Cardel and Donahoo, (2015) shows that although the environmental factors that contribute to obesity are often underappreciated, they are very important and thus should be addressed.
The authors therefore provide evidence-based interventions that can be replicated in the plan to ensure success.
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References
Wadden, T. A., Tronieri, J. S., & Butryn, M. L. (2020). Lifestyle modification approaches for the treatment of obesity in adults. American psychologist, 75(2), 235.
Lee, A., Cardel, M., & Donahoo, W. T. (2015). Social and environmental factors influencing obesity. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK278977/
Alabama Public Health. Obesity Trends (Data). https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/obesity/trends.html
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