Community Health Assessment and Education
Experience scope
Categories
Data analysis Change management Public health Healthcare Project managementSkills
health assessment student engagement community health health informaticsA Community Health Assessment and Education (CHAE) project, including several project-based learning activities such as assessing community health needs to creating and implementing a community educational health product, is required for this introductory course. The CHAE project aims to engage students in developing community core competencies for workforce readiness by practicing in community-oriented settings to promote and preserve population health.
Learners
1) Conduct a population-focused health assessment to identify health needs in a selected community.
2) Use health informatics and technology to search, collect, and analyze data on community health needs.
3) Create a health project product to promote health behaviors and reduce health risks for a selected community.
4) Demonstrate community core competencies to provide professional evidence-based practice in community-oriented settings.
5) Appraise the achieved outcomes of the CHAE project for sustainability.
Project Examples
Requirements
1) Create "need to know" packets related to healthy eating for students in a selected community.
2) Plan a first-aid training session for a school or community.
3) Make a flyer of after-school safety tips for young children and distribute it to the community or school.
4) Create a play video that teaches young children how to stay safe at home while their parents are away and distribute it to the community.
5) Teach a class on the importance of wearing masks and hand washing for a selected school.
6) Create a program to teach about good nutrition for the elderly in the community.
7) Plan a teaching session or make flyers related to mental health for a school in a selected community.
8) Collaborate with schools on educational seminars for students about physical health issues.
9) Develop a wellness and disease management program based on improving baseline health numbers (e.g., weight, BMI, body composition, cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure) in a selected community.
10) Develop a poster to use at the fair booth about prescription drug abuse and proper disposal of prescription drugs in a selected community.
11) Set up a tobacco prevention booth and give cessation presentations at health fairs or a selected community setting.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience: