Public Health: The Diffusion Of Innovation Model

Since 1980, the United States has taken on 10-year plans that outline certain key national health objectives set to be accomplished during a 10-year timeframe (Shi & Singh, 2015). These initiatives are founded on medical care with prevention services, health promotion, education, community health care, and increased access to integrated services. The initiative, Healthy People 2010: Healthy People in Healthy Communities, launched in 2000. The initiative emphasizes the role of community partners such as

I have learned that it is important that educators  and health providers be trained on cultural competency to understand the population they are serving. Marks, Sims, and Osher (King, Sims, & Osher, n.d.) define cultural competency  as a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross–cultural situations" ( as cited in Cross et al., 1989; Isaacs & Benjamin, 1991). Health providers and educators should investigate demographic patterns or trends in the place where they live and work. This brings awareness of the types of cultures that they might come across when they are working with people. Organizations should integrate and implement policies that promote the value of  diversity, self-assessment, manage the dynamics of difference, acquire and institutionalize cultural knowledge, and adapt to diversity and the cultural contexts of communities they serve (Georgetown  University, 2004). Georgetown University (2004) also stresses that culture competency grows gradually and is always open for improvement.

In creating a culture of health, we need to create: ways of sharing values, collaborating, integrating health, and community systems and equitable systems.

Health care practitioners must look at behaviors, their forethought and motive to get an understanding so that the develop of health education (intervention and prevention) meets the needs of the target population as to get the best program and health outcomes (Thomas, Fine, & Ibrahim, 2004). For example, many cultures when gathering for holidays and family events, will talk, sing, dance, eat, drink, and smoke. It is so much of their culture, that it becomes a challenge to give up any one of the above-mentioned activities; because it is the group norm and because of peer pressure and expectations (ACOG,

It is know that the patient’s community or cultural group can have significant impact on a person’s health. Therefore, health care practitioners are faced with more challenges that include outside sources and they need to be willing to change their treatments to address the other sources.

The community I decided to research and compose this paper is one from which I live, Kent County Michigan. I gathered data from several different resources such as the Kent County Health Department and Michigan Department of Community Health in order to create a community assessment. The data I collected can be broken down into four different assessment pieces.

There are some challenges, as well, in implementing health promotion programs that use the social ecological framework. One main challenge is that programs are expensive and complex to implement in certain community settings. Also, there needs to be close coordination and collaboration between individuals and groups. In the article by Wagemakers et al., the authors developed a framework that links the domains of social environment and health, with key health predicting mediators, and operational variables of participation and collaboration (6). They based this framework on experience in case studies, audits of community health programs in the Netherlands, and ideas found in the literature. The authors offer four key guidelines on how to apply the framework that can help increase community participation and collaboration. These guidelines are: use the variables as a menu, set specific aims for social change processes, use an action research approach and triangulate data. This framework can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of community health promotion designs and address the challenges faced in implementing new programs.

Health care providers can overcome differing points of view regarding health promotion and disease prevention by creating a learning environment built on mutual trust, respect and acceptance. The goal is to provide education that is built upon the individual or group strengths that empower and engage the group/individual to be an active participant. It should encourage decision-making that positively affects lifestyle and health behavior changes.

There are also general socio-economic, cultural, and environmental conditions to be considered when taking a holistic approach to health promotion, since having only

This is assignment is to review and reflect on your own personal values and beliefs which shapes how you interpret and analyze population health. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on how you see your role as a healthcare professional in advocating for, and influencing population health. Describe the connection of this role to public health and address your thoughts around the influence that health care providers may have or not, in promoting the health of the community. What role should heath care providers play, and what strategies may increase the influence of healthcare providers in improving population health? This assignment can be approached from a clinical, academic or public health focus.

In public health, as in many fields there are a set of conundrums that practitioners, leaders and law makers have to address in order to provide the most appropriate service to their populations. One of these conundrums is the battle between what is good for the community vs. what is good for the individual. This topic will be broken up to the community vs. the individual, and discussed based on research done by Kass et al, and Oriola, and will be concluded by presenting possible solutions.

the results of the analysis. Section VI discusses the findings and the limitations of the study. Future research directions are also outlined. Section VII concludes the paper. II. INNOVATION DIFFUSION AND THE S-CURVE GROWTH MODEL Over the last three decades, a considerable body of literature has accumulated on the characterization of the life cycle of innovations. Interest in understanding the factors and the environment conducive to the adoption of new innovations spans across different disciplines, most notably marketing, economics, and social science. One line of research involves empirical studies using cross-sectional data with a focus on the relationship between the adoption decision, the innovation, and the organizational characteristics. The majority of IS innovation studies fall into this category [2], [6], [17], [23], [35], [55], [56]. Another line of research, popularized in the marketing literature, focuses on the diffusion pattern of innovations over time. Aggregate diffusion models have been proposed to study the rate and pattern of the diffusion process. While originally developed to capture the essential features of

Strengthening community action is instrumental in establishing positive health outcomes in young people. In strengthening community action, various support networks are put into place to not only prevent

As a graduate student in the department of Community Health and Health Behaviors at the University at Buffalo,

Public health leaders have prioritized CCL as an effective approach to improving population health, but to get to the health outcomes that we seek, the community and clinical sectors must get there by design. The design needed to improve population health must include seven strategies addressed in the CDC Practitioners Guide. The first of these seven strategies is to learn about the sectors. So, before implementing a community-clinical linkage, the first step is to learn about and identify the unmet health care services and social needs of the community, including existing resources, organizations, health issues, policy,