Assignment 1/3 Demographics

Under the assessment core function, the first service is monitor health status to identify community health problems. By doing a periodic assessment of the community’s health status you are identifying health risks, paying attention to the vital statistics of the community and finding the disparities of such. You are also identifying assets and resources available to the public health system of the community. The second service, diagnose and investigate health problems and hazards in the community, you identify major health threats and provide responses to epidemiologic investigations of health threats in a timely

Brindlee Mountain Middle School is a small rural school in Marshall County Alabama located within eight miles of Guntersville, Alabama and Arab, Alabama. BMMS was constructed sixteen years ago to consolidate Grassy and Union Grove junior high schools. This consolidation led to the reorganization of Grassy and Union Grove into elementary schools serving grades kindergarten through fourth grade. In 2004 Brindlee Mountain High School was created, followed by another reorganization of Grassy and Union Grove elementary schools into a primary school serving grades kindergarten through second grade and an elementary school serving grades three through five. In 2011, Union Grove and Grassy schools underwent another transformation when they were renamed Brindlee Mountain Primary School and Brindlee Mountain Elementary School respectively. These changes successfully created the Brindlee Mountain feeder pattern.

How Can These Challenges Be Addressed. The changing of disability rates, the size of the economy and efforts at privatization may affect how much of an economic burden these programs will impose in the future. As a result, household financial wealth in the world's major economies will be roughly $31 trillion lower in 20 years than it would have been if historical demographic trends had persisted. Raising the retirement age, easing restrictions on immigration, encouraging families to have more children, and achieving faster economic growth will have little impact on this shortfall. To fill it, households and governments will have to increase their savings rates and national economies will have to allocate capital more efficiently, thereby boosting returns (Farrell, 2005).

Every town or city in the world is unique in its own way. They have defining factors that set them apart from one another. These factors include poverty, population, sex, unemployment, and many other features. These specific aspects are all apart of demography; the scientific study of population, composition, and factors such as health, race, ethnicity, income, and more. Demography varies greatly by location and by comparing two places, such as Jefferson City and St. Louis, Missouri, one can see the variation of these features and how they influence health and overall life quality. You will see that St. Louis and Jefferson City, although both located in Missouri, are two very different cities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federally funded agency whose goal is to improve public health. Through various initiates and programs the CDC has been able to implement policies and procedures to improve public health, one of which is the CDC’s Assessment Initiative Cooperative Agreement. According to the CDC the Assessment Initiative (AI) is an assessment and analysis of data about the health of our communities.

Ethnic and racism discrimination in the United States of America has been a major problem since the thirteen colonies created and the slave era. The leaders of the colonies wanted to build a country that represent all the people who are living in it without giving control to big powers that can decrease the representation of the people. They placed laws in making the American constitution that protect all the people of America. However, these amendments were mostly protecting the White Americans which not approved to Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latin Americans, and African Americans. Laws and amendments kept being added to the constitution so that the rights of every person who lives in the United States remains protected, and one of the most important amendments of the constitution is the fourteenth amendment, which freed the slaves and gave human equality and rights for all races in the US. Thus, African American still suffer the most today when a young white male shoot and killed nine African Americans in church in Charleston South Carolina (Schaller). My research paper will consist of subjects whom they are related to race discrimination and what happened lately in Charleston church and who was behind this massacre and what was his motive to do such thing. For my research paper I will argue about the South Carolina’s racist history and how the history influences some young males and turn them into racisms (Schaller). Also, I will discuss how flags play a huge rule

Data analyses were run to examine the relationship between gender, race, and geographic location and the participant’s frequency of physical activity and level of self-esteem. It was predicted that males would have a higher frequency of physical activity and a higher level of self-esteem than women and that self-esteem would be high in White participants than Non-White participants. Although the data was non-normal, there high sample size allowed the Factorial ANOVA test to be run to investigate the relationship between the demographics and dependent variables. The bivariate relationship between physical activity and self-esteem was examined with Spearman’s rho. An alpha level of p < .05 was used and Tukey’s critical value was used for post hoc tests to identify the relationship between variables.

Turnock defined assessment in public health as regularly and systematically collecting, analyzing, and making available information on the health of a community, including statistics on health status, community health needs, and epidemiologic and other studies of health problems. Assurance implies that the necessary remedies or intervention are put into place by involving assuring constituents that services necessary to achieve agreed upon goals are provided by encouraging action on the parts of others, requiring action through regulation, or providing services directly. Policy development is an intermediate role of collectively deciding which remedies or interventions are most appropriate for the problems identified promoting the use of scientific knowledge base in decision

In this course I have learned about different social problems in societies worldwide. Some of these include poverty, social inequality, discrimination of race and culture, urbanization, and more. After learning all these subjects and more, I have decided to do my final on social inequality and minorities in the United States. I chose this particular topic because I have seen this in almost every place have lived. I find it appalling that minorities are still not treated 100% equal. We as Americans know what inequality is and know how it is used in our everyday society. I want to explore this topic and show how real and big this

Marshall County Schools are located in Marshall County, Alabama. The county is surrounded by Madison and Jackson Counties to the north, Morgan County to the west, Cullman, Blount, and Etowah Counties to the south, and DeKalb County to the east. The majority of the schools are found in heavily populated rural areas. Marshall County is unique due to the fact that there are four city school districts in addition to the Marshall County School System. This poses a challenge concerning funding within the county. This is due to the fact that the city school systems are located in four of the largest cities within the county and compose approximately 90% of the tax base revenue for the county. Our county school system is made up of primarily rural communities that lack a viable tax base. This combined with the fact the Marshall County has such a high poverty rate in general (currently slightly above 81%) has left the county school system with little in regards to a local feasible and workable revenue source.

The purpose and scope of this Pima County community health assessment is to give the community members information on the needs and the health status of the community while taking into account, cultural, educational, demographic and socioeconomic factors. These elements, in addition to housing, geography, and health resources, provide a better understanding of the components that shape Pima County. Community health assessments help lay the foundation for what problems need to be addressed within the population and inspire programs to set goals to improve the overall health of the specific population being addressed.

In order to provide an effective policy Region VI will need to create a needs assessment. A needs assessment is a major component of the stages of planning, it is used to collect data about the health problems of a particular group, which can be used to tailor the health program to the needs of that group (Issel, 2014). It identifies the strengths, resources available and disparities in the community. It assesses the capabilities of the community and its residents, agencies, and organizations (Issel, 2014).

Good post this week. According to the CDC, effective policies and distribution related to health and its resources can significantly develop community health. There are necessities to recognize some aspects of support raise effective policies and terminate poor ones, such as generate proper metrics, which is covering policy that can impact on large populations, intervention approaches within organizations, and individual-level behavioral methodologies for prevention or disease management. They suggest some recommendations for Policy-Related Metrics. A few struggles are under way to mature public health policy surveillance systems (CDC, 2012).

The informative synopsis of how the demographic changes are taking place in states with the regard to the workforce, states and regions are benefiting from these changes, areas which are declining and why, as well as, the projections of the birth rates and aging in the states over the next twenty-five years. The economic implications of these changes have on our states. Then finally how this all is related to Federalism.

Starting in 1972, the General Social Survey (GSS) used a four-category response scale for respondents to answer a question on how they view their own health, known as the self-reported health question (SRH) (Smith 2005, 1). The four-categories used were: poor, fair, good, and excellent (Smith et al. 2017, 385) Starting in 2002, the GSS started using both a four and five-category scale for people to respond to the SRH (Smith et al. 2017,1537). The five-category scale used the same measures from the four-category scale, but also included “very good” as the fifth option. The question is: which response category form gives a better ability to determine SRH among people?