What do you want to know about the residents of your county?

APA paragraph format-(Single space)- including APA format references(Minimum 2 references)

 

Minimum 250 words. DO NOT RETYPE QUESTIONS. RESPONSE in paragraph format

Response to peers minimum 125 words.

You were hired by the county health department in New York to head their nursing department. They are particularly concerned with differences between the county and the state on a number of health indicators. The health department data they are using is based on a county-wide health assessment that includes a number of data sources. The overall findings have the county just slightly below the state on a number of parameters, such as asthma and hypertension, but there is a much higher prevalence rate of diabetes. The director has asked you to examine these data more carefully to determine if any action is needed.

1. What would be your first steps and what data sources might you use?

2. What do you want to know about the residents of your county?

Next, you bring together a team of nurses in your department and conduct a review of the demographics of your county. You find that 35% of the population are Hispanic, 60% are non-Hispanic Whites, 3% are African American, and the remaining population is Asian or American Indian. When you examined the available health-related data based on racial groups, you found that the prevalence rate for type 2 diabetes in Hispanics over age 17 was double that of non-Hispanic whites (20.4% vs. 9.3%). At the national level, the prevalence rate is not so disparate (13.2 vs. 7.6). For those 50 years of age or older, 50% had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

3. What are the main risk factors for type 2 diabetes in this population that help explain the disparity in the prevalence of the disease?

4. Which social determinants of health are important to consider?

5. How would you use this information in your report back to the director?

Last Completed Projects