Evaluate the environmental and epidemiological data about your community so that you can illustrate and diagnose widespread population health issues.
Develop an ethical health improvement plan that addresses the population health issue you have identified in your evaluation. The plan should be based upon the best available evidence and meet the cultural and environmental needs of your community.
Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis for your population health improvement plan.
Propose criteria that can be used to evaluate the achievement of your health improvement plan’s outcomes.
Explain how you plan to apply strategies for communicating with community members and colleagues in the health care profession in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way about the development and implementation of your health improvement plan.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Example assessment: You may use the Evidence-Based Population Health Improvement Plan Example [PPTX] to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.
APA Resources: You may use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] and the APA Style Paper Template [DOCX] to ensure your assessment is formatted in appropriate APA style.
Submission Requirements
Length of submission: 3–5 double-spaced, typed pages. Your plan should be succinct yet substantive.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 2: Apply evidence-based practice to design interventions to improve population health.
Evaluate environmental and epidemiological data regarding a community in order to diagnose widespread population health issues.
Develop an ethical health improvement plan to address a population health issue within a community that is based upon the best available evidence and meets the cultural and environmental needs of the community.
Competency 3: Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based interventions.
Propose criteria that will be used to evaluate achievement of outcomes for a population health improvement plan.
Competency 4: Evaluate the value and relative weight of available evidence upon which to make a clinical decision.
Justify the value and relevance of evidence used as the basis for a population health improvement plan.
Competency 5: Synthesize evidence-based practice and academic research to communicate effective solutions.
Apply strategies for communicating with community members and colleagues in the health care profession in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
