Step 2 – Understanding Available Community Resources Through

4.2 Describe strategies to improve outcomes for partnership working in health and social care services

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

Healthcare stakeholders know how to value what they have captured and they have come up with many ideas to help with their goal. “Big data could transform the healthcare sector, but the industry must undergo fundamental changes before stakeholders can capture its full value” (Kayyali, B., Knott, D., Van Kuiken, S., 2013). Since the affordable care act has been in place there has been an increase number of patients seeking preventative care or even seeking help for chronic illnesses that they weren’t seen for because of lack of insurance. Because of that, there has been a shortage of physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers. So the stakeholders have another challenge on their hands in trying to hire more doctors and nurses to help with the increase of patients.

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.

Social capital includes two avenues – bridging and bonding, that have the the ability to improve healthier outcomes in communities; research has shown that communities with higher levels of social capital have a higher mortality rate (Policy Link, 2002). Bonding improves the overall relationships, as lack of trust is profound in minority communities; and bridging enhances the association through culturally appropriate messaging in an effective manner (Policy Link, 2002). Social capital avenues are critical for services that provide quality healthcare access and positive outcomes (Policy Link, 2002). Partnerships are substantial to build an infrastructure that is often missing key variables and requires the involvement of multiple sectors (Policy Link, 2002). Communities through task forces are also able to challenge government authorities and industries on deteriorating environments, and correlation to debilating health (Policy Link, 2002). Community concerns often go beyond that particular region, so it is of utmost importance that attention and connections are also made outside of the community; policies – local, state, and federal often have implications on the community state of affairs (Policy Link,

This Practice Brief focuses on the challenges of establishing and maintaining quality data in the Electronic Health Record. Beginning with citing statistics of adverse events that are directly linked with poor quality data, the author further discusses how Health Information Exchanges, performance improvement initiatives, and payment are closely tied to data quality. The success of Electronic Health Record Incentive programs and ICD-10

Community health identifies common needs in the community and provides solutions for modifying behaviors for community members. According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2008, p. 347) the term community health is “the meeting of collective needs by identifying problems and managing behaviors within the community itself and between the community and the larger society.” According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2008) community health involves biological, emotional, and social aspects. The biological aspects are measured in terms of “ morbidity and mortality rates, life expectancy indexes, and risk factor profiles” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 3008, p. 345). Emotional aspects are measured in terms of mental health, while crime rates and levels of function define the social aspects (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008). Community structure is defined in terms of services and resources available to the members,

Striving to be more than just a spectator in the human experience, I seek opportunities to practice collaboration and consensus building, while advancing a more equitable and democratic society. The human community needs to foster dynamic partnerships and explore emerging opportunities that can assist in advancing a civil society that supports our global environment.

The Palm Healthcare Foundation seeks to empower Palm Beach County residents to reach their highest health potential by bringing community members and leaders together to examine critical health issues affecting their communities. Through the Palm Healthcare Foundation our team was able to collaborate with the Healthier Together Initiatives at Healthier Delray Beach, Healthier Jupiter and Healthier Boynton Beach. Our experience with Palm Healthcare and the Healthier Initiative allowed us to gain insight about community engagement and targeting specific community needs. In order for us to be efficacious it was important that we established a climate of mutual respect, dignity, diversity, ethical integrity and trust.

The claims dataset would be a fruitful dataset to acquire information about health services. Firstly, Dr. Gretta Über-Sharpe would be able to extract the Claim Dates. This information would be good for summarizing the days that individuals are going for getting health services. She could ask analysis questions such as when the onset of these visits begin, or if the visits are clustered by specific dates. Then, she could look at the Claim ID and determine how many claims the individuals are utilizing. She could analyze both the Claim ID column and the Claim Date to answer questions such as what were the average amount of claims per day.

Developing community’s capacity to solve problems related to ASRH requires action at the individual, institutional and social level. While communities may not have much experience addressing ASRH-related issues prior to an external organizations’ involvement, communities can develop ASRH capacity over time. It is just as important to assess a community’s capacity to address ASRH and other health issues.

How community involvement is used to address health and welfare issues in children, women, the underprivileged, and marginalized.

This provides ways to solving some of the inequity problems that reside within the communities such as: scarcity in health facilities for the community populations, regulatory measures to protect the youth within the communities, having proper waste management that affect the community health outcomes, and the use of public areas easily accessible for the community to have parks and recreational facilities designed into urban areas (Edberg, 2015). Community mobilization history derives from several groups: Labor movement, Anti abortion movement, Anti smoking activism and Aids activism to name a few. There are key factors to mobilizing a community: defining community, assessing community, understanding and selecting the correct agenda. Another key element in affecting community change is the way that you go about implementing the change through organizations that focus on health promotion, disease prevention, and community health care, which can all affect the health status within a community. The field of organizational development is dedicated to systems study. Psychologist Kurt Lewin et al. was known for studying groups within organizational change. This research was to view organizations as systems of human beings (Edberg, 2015). Organizations also change through stages such as unfreezing and refreezing movements, organizational climate, culture, and capacity to undergo

It is important to understand the process of engagement to which a community participates in community efforts and take action on health care issues. Community-based foundations respond to challenges in public health by developing upon already established attitudes and on a history of community leadership. Communities are becoming involved and are delving into intricate roles to inform and influence public health issues such as diabetes. Diabetic community-based groups help individuals become more confident in their decisions regarding their health care. Supports groups enable diabetics to maintain healthy lifestyles and be able to introduce comprehensive steps to build better futures (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2004).

A patient has a sacral wound and a wound vac. They are being sent home to continue the care in their home. Interventions are being implemented to help them cope and heal with their new lifestyle. Also, with the interventions, elevation methods are included to reinforce how well the interventions are working and how well they were learned. Additionally incorporated are the benefits and barriers from a community resource. Likewise, with any patient there are always legal and ethical considerations that will be mentioned.