importance and impact of community on health outcomes.

For this assignment, please review both the Course Objectives and Learning Objectives. After reviewing, please describe in your own words how each of the written assignments has applied to all objectives. In addition, please provide a brief summary of how the skills you learned in this course can possibly be used in your public health career. Please provide specific examples.
Course Objectives:

At the completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• – Understand the importance and impact of community on health outcomes.
• – Define key concepts in community health analysis, including what compromises a health community, sense of community, community capacity and empowerment.
• – Describe various models use in large scale community assessments (e.g. MAPP, APEXPH, etc)
• – Become familiar with the purpose and requirements of the Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs.
• – Understand how to use the MAPP process for community-oriented health assessment and planning.
• – Describe and utilize methods of primary and secondary data for community health analysis.
• – Identify sources of secondary data and resources to assist in the process of community health analysis.
• – Prepare an analysis of community health status and develop plans to address health improvements.
• – Understand the underlying challenges conducting community health assessment and planning, including developing and sustaining health behavior change.

Learning Objectives:

• – Develop a community health improvement plan for a chosen community.
• – Demonstrate competencies in biostatistics, epidemiology, and research methods in the community health analysis and plan.
• – Demonstrate ethical competencies in the community health analysis and plan.
• – Demonstrate management competencies in the community health analysis and plan.
• – Demonstrate environmental health competencies in the community health analysis and plan.
• – Demonstrate public health biology competencies in the community health analysis and plan.
• – Demonstrate cultural competence and address health disparities in the community health analysis and plan.
• – Demonstrate health policy competencies in the community health policy and plan.
• – Demonstrate social and behavioral competencies in the community health analysis and plan.
• – Synthesize the core competencies in the community health analysis and plan.

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