Community Health Strategic Plan

In the United States, smoking cigarettes is the number one preventable cause of morbidity and death (Bergen, 1999), and accounts for $300 Billion in health care costs and economic productivity loss (Jamal, 2015). While the national smoking rate is 16.8% (CDC, 2016), specific demographics are more susceptible to developing smoking habits: people who live below the poverty line (10.9% higher), disabled or with a limitation (6.2% higher), and males (4.7% higher) (Agaku, 2014).

One of my first memories in the United States was taking a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) class. I was in sixth grade and a top student, as talking about drugs and alcohol and the way they affect us was fascinating to me. This is why, the following year, I volunteered to become a peer educator in Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U). For a couple of years, I gave presentations to young students which included facts, demonstrations, and games, to spread the knowledge that tobacco is harmful and that staying away from smoking prolongs life expectancy and increases the quality of life. It should come as no surprise, then, that I consider myself a big proponent of staying tobacco-free and encouraging others to quit smoking as a great way to promote health. I remember watching my mom and sister as they took part in their nightly ritual of smoking a few cigarettes to unwind. “Did you know that a main component of cigarettes is used as rocket fuel?” I would ask them, as I opened the window and they stared back at me blankly. “We know, we know” was the answer every time. I knew that convincing them to quit was no easy task, but I was committed. Day after day, I proudly stated a new fact about the evils of smoking. Finally one day, they quit. At first, they attributed it to the cost. Since we had just immigrated to the United States, the cost of cigarettes was simply not something they could afford. I didn’t believe it. I proudly

Regular reviews, target setting and referring to the initial assessments target setting is vital in ensuring a

Tobacco use; despite efforts to curb it, have remained unsatisfactory high. The ACA aims to improve this by making smoking cessation programs affordable or free in health care policies; by funding local communities sponsoring outreach programs aimed at at-risk populations, and media campaigns graphically illustrating the dangers tobacco use [3].

LDA has extended the branding to include educating adults on eliminating or reducing their tobacco use. Youth often imitate the habits of their adult family members. Studies have proven that if teens are educated at an early age there is an 85% chance they will not use tobacco products. LDA Consulting wants to introduce our curriculums to the youths in the Metro Atlanta area so that we can catch those at risk before they are introduced to this deadly “Legal

Before discussing the sexual assault crisis on college campuses, it is important to disprove some misconceptions. When someone reports a sexual assault, society tends to immediately deny the assault happened, claiming false accusation, but, according to Stanford’s “Men Against Abuse Now” report, only two percent of allegations are false, a

She described to me a situation where UNCW failed to alert the students in a timely manner about a possible case of sexual assault on campus (B. Whitley, personal communications, April 24, 2017). After she informed me of this, I decided to research the rape and sexual assault statistics that the school is legally obligated to update each year. The statistics showed that in 2015 rape was reported seven times on campus and 3 times in residential facilities (Annual Security Report…, 2016, pg. 41).

A community health assessment is a fundamental instrument of public health practice. Its objective is to depict the health of the community, by presenting information on health standing, community health needs, resources, and epidemiologic and other studies of present local health problems. It seeks to recognize target populations that may be at augmented risk of poor health results and to increase a better understanding of their needs, as well as evaluates the larger community surroundings and how it relate to the health of people. It also identifies those areas where better information is desired, particularly information on health differences amid different subpopulations, quality of health care, and the incidence and severity of disabilities in the population. The Community Health Assessment is the foundation for all local public health development, giving the local health component the instance to recognize and network with key community leaders, businesses and concerned residents about health priorities and concerns. This information shapes the foundation of improving the health status of the community by way of a strategic plan (The Municipal Public Health Services Plan Community Health Assessment Guidance and Format, n.d.).

Tobacco consumption is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the United States. In the United States, cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year. That is around one in five deaths annually only because of smoking. On an average, the person who smokes dies ten years earlier than a non-smoker. These statistics are not mere numbers but speak about the gravity of the situation. The United States government should portray a more negative view on Tabaco to save the lives of many people worldwide (Centre for Disease and Prevention, second paragraph).

The Health and Well-Being dimension addresses alcohol consumption and it should now address the use of tobacco products. Philip Morris on its own website acknowledges “an overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious disease in smokers”, ref (f). The CG Health Promotion Manual states, “It is CG policy to discourage the use of all forms of tobacco products and to protect people from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, unsanitary conditions created by the use of spit tobacco, and the potential addiction to nicotine products. The use of any tobacco product in public detracts from a sharp military appearance and is discouraged.”

Sexual assaults happen on many campuses. Winston Salem State University has had the most reported sexual assaults out of the three universities researched. Winston keeps an up to date log of all crimes that happen on campus and with students on their website.  Everyone is able to access the crime logs throughout every year and month. The crime logs just tell of the crimes committed and where they took place but not what happened next. The website does not give information on the next part after the crime and what happens to the victims. Which is why attempts were made to receive health and disciplinary statistics by emailing Ivee U. Greer, Administrative Support for the Office of the Dean of Students, and Jeanette L. Bourne, Affiliate for the

Also, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association has worked hard in encouraging for smoking cessation. Examples of this, is that APNA collaborated with resolutions such as “Non-smokers Bill of Rights in 1974, Smoke-Free Society and Smoking Policy for ANA Officials at ANA Headquarters in 1986, Discouragement of Economic Support for the Tobacco Industry in 1992, Prevention of Tobacco Use in Youth 1997, and the most recent being Tobacco Use Prevention, Cessation, and Exposure to Second-hand Smoke in (2005)” (APNA, 2008).

Leading NOW National Organization for Women has taken the view that universities are too protective of their male students accused of sexual assault and are lax on their obligation to report criminal offenders to law enforcement agencies (LeVay & Baldwin, 2011). The Higher Education has three comparatively accessible and enforceable system that could implement in achieving more thoroughly accuracy in sexual violation of occurrence results. Under this revision, schools are obligated to distribute and publish policies that advice on-campus and off-campus groups of the school's sexual brutality anticipation projects and reaction techniques (Cantalupo, 2010). In any case, the Campus Accountability, and Safety Act would require a yearly review of understudies' encounters with assault at school to be distributed online (Yung, 2015; Cantalupo, 2010). The DNA Record structure provides legal assistant to survivors of dating rape. The Campus Accountability and Safety Act would boost ceiling punishment for every infringement from $35,000 to $150,000. A considerably higher increase may be warranted to hinder undercounting (Yung, 2015; Cantalupo, 2010). Secondly, the DoE expanded the recurrence and number of reviews. Finally, schools with genuine infringement of Clery Act misconduct information reporting ought to arrange on a probation scheme that warrants more prominent discipline for future infringement. Still, one can see the significance of victims rights and acknowledge of how victims converge on institutions, and their reactions can help support reporting and prevention (Cantalupo, 2010). While, decreasing the present example of schools coming back to evidently undercounting and hones in when the DoE is no

An estimated 36.5 million or 15.1 % of adults aged 18 years old and older currently smoke cigarettes and more than 16,000,000 have smoking or live with diseases that are related to smoking. According to US department of health and human services, over the past five decades, there is a significant decline in cigarette smoking in the U.S. The progress has slowed in recent years and the prevalence of use of other tobacco products such as vapes, e-cigars and smokeless tobacco

Nicotine use is a leading preventable cause of death in the world, directly and indirectly responsible for 440,000 deaths per year. The health problems that result in tobacco use tally an annual of $75 billion in direct medical costs (Slovic 36). That money spent on medical problems for smokers should be used to pay for more important things in our society such as schools, libraries, childcare, etc.