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“The Final Word”

Give a brief summary evaluation of your community’s health, the major strengths of your community, and the hopes for your community in the future.  Also, discuss what has resonated with you in this course.

Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. Your initial post is worth 8 points.
• You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts.
• All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible.

· You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their posts.

· All replies must be constructive and use literature where possible.

Post #1

Jenna Horgan

St Thomas University

NUR 420

Professor Roberts

February 23, 2023

Give a brief summary evaluation of your community’s health, the major strengths of your community, and the hopes for your community in the future. Also, discuss what has resonated with you in this course.

            In my community, most of the individuals are adults over 45 years. Due to their old age and lack of exercise, they suffer from numerous conditions, such as obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. The other population tends to suffer from stress due to an increase in the cost of living as well as job losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic (Smith et al., 2021). There are also numerous homeless individuals who suffer from illness because they lack healthcare services.

           Our community has numerous strengths. It has been around for many years and has transitioned from traditional to modern performances. The people in the community have local businesses, both big and small, which offer employment to the locals and those from neighboring communities. Most residents own personal vehicles, but the community is equipped with public transportation, which provides metro rails, taxis (Uber/Lyft), and buses.

           The issue of the homeless in the community has been addressed, and the number of homeless people on the streets has significantly decreased as compared to other communities. The community also takes care of the population of drug users and the mentally ill. The community has set up several rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, and health centers to offer medical care and services to those in need. Another strength our community has is recreational facilities. We have numerous recreational facilities that offer entertainment to everyone on weekends, holidays, and every other day.

           Our community was able to fight against the pandemic that had affected us greatly. The community was able to set up a vaccination center to help mitigate the spread of the disease as well as a testing center. Finally, the last strength in our community is our unity. Through this unity, we have achieved small and great things. As a community, we were able to engage our youths in activities that are beneficial to them and will help them grow to be respectable citizens. In addition, this helped us reduce the abuse of substances because most youths are engaged in other activities.

           The community has several hopes for the future. We hope to become more socially, economically, culturally, and educationally developed. The community plans to achieve this by advancing nightlife opportunities (Ife, 2016). This will allow for more infrastructures to be developed, which in turn will secure commercial and residential developments. The community also aims to increase and maximize security for all residents. We plan on doing this by lowering the crime rates within the city and in neighboring communities. This will allow the city to progress in a positive direction.

           This course has allowed me to have a better understanding of my community as well as know my place and responsibility in society. This understanding will allow me to ensure that my community moves in the right direction. This course has allowed me to create my locality because it has created competition in class among all of us regarding which community has better facilities and which community does better than the others. I have also become more knowledgeable, and I am in a better position to educate fellow community members on different things that are beneficial to them as well as the community (Pigg, 2013).

References

Ife, J. (2016). Community development in an uncertain world: Vision, analysis and practice. Cambridge University Press.

Pigg, K. (2013). Community leadership development: The effects on community development. Community Development, 44(4), 408-410. 

https://doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2013.814699
Links to an external site.

Smith, B., Riddle, M., Wagner, A., Edgemon, L., Burdi, C., & Hyde, I. (2021). County economic impact index: Measuring the ongoing economic effects of COVID-19. 

https://doi.org/10.2172/1822927
Links to an external site.

Post #2

Student: Fabienne Jean Baptiste

Professor: Tina Roberts

Class: NUR-420-AP1

Assignment: Discussion #7

Due date: 02/23/2023

Community Health

            My community is significantly diverse, incorporating people from various ethnicities and socio-cultural and economic backgrounds. The diversity implies that people’s levels of access to healthcare differ. However, the community has not experienced any significant health challenges. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic represents the most notable health challenge the community has faced in the past few decades. COVID19 manifests the novel coronavirus, which spreads mainly through the air and affects the respiratory and cardiovascular system.

            Most people in the community are unaware of the symptoms associated with the coronavirus, despite the massive sensitization efforts aimed at curbing the pandemic. This lack of awareness manifests in failure to adhere to all the measures prescribed by major healthcare authorities to curb the disease. The community appears to be in urgent need of information about the pandemic, especially with regard to the way it spreads and approaches that can be adopted for prevention, such as symptom identification.

            Additionally, the number of people visiting healthcare facilities has reduced drastically, albeit for the wrong reasons. For example, this reduction is attributable to the fact that most fear acquiring the virus. This trend is particularly dangerous for low-income families, which are already struggling with the burden of preventing varying diseases due to financial challenges. For example, in light of the pandemic, there is an acute lack of crucial supplies such as disinfectants in low-income households. For this reason, the potential of the members of such families to contract the novel coronavirus is significantly high.

Major Strengths

            The primary strength of this community is the unity exhibited by the residents. This unity manifests in the support people tend to have for one another despite their diversity. It plays a central role in ensuring that the promotion strategies adopted by health agencies are likely to be implemented. This aspect is crucial, considering the massive extent to which such measures thrive in a supportive environment (Meng et al., 2020). This community also boasts a wide array of health facilities, which can be avenues for educating people about the disease. It also enhances the prospects of awareness drives to be massively successful in curbing the spread of the pandemic.

The community also boasts of access to basic emergency service facilities. These facilities play a crucial role in catering to the needs of those with adverse ailments and the massive population of the elderly prone to many health issues. The distance between the community and the town is also minimal, which implies easy accessibility when practitioners or patients want to interact with one another.

Future Hopes

            The community will curb the pandemic and thus enhance its prospects of maintaining its previous health status. I hope that an effective awareness campaign will be carried out, ensuring that residents stand a significant chance of combatting pandemics in the future. Implementing screening exercises for coronavirus can be an effective tool in attaining the aforementioned objective (Logan, 2020). This aspect is crucial to helping people understand the extent to which the disease can be linked to their symptoms.

Course Resonation

            This course has been both helpful and interesting, especially in the way it has provided knowledge about health issues. Engaging with the course material has enabled learning about the need for targeting health promotion initiatives on residents and locations to enhance the effectiveness of the implementation process. Additionally, learning about the different health promotion strategies reinforced my belief in the notion of combating the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

Logan, R. I. (2020). ‘A poverty in understanding’: Assessing the structural challenges experienced           by community health workers and their clients. Global Public Health, 15(1), 137-150.

Meng, L., Hua, F., & Bian, Z. (2020). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): emerging and future             challenges for dental and oral medicine. Journal of dental research, 99 (5), 481-487.