02 Feb Note: Remember to not disclose

Unit 6 discussion

Population Health in Your Practice or Organization

This discussion will focus on professional discourse about your personal experiences and observations of planning, developing, and implementing population health improvement initiatives in your practice and care settings.

For this discussion, please address the following:

Describe an experience you have had working with a population or community health initiative (or describe a time in your care setting that you observed this type of working being done at your organization or in your community).

Briefly explain the considerations of the community that were addressed and how data about the community was incorporated.

How was the diversity of culture and beliefs in the community taken into account?

How were other health concerns of the community also taken into account?

How were the economic and daily environmental realities of the community taken into account?

Consider successes, challenges, and failures you observed in how the community needs were addressed or considered.

What, if any, ethical considerations were there for working with specific groups and stakeholders in the community?

Reflect on things you would have suggested doing differently, if you could revisit that community case again.

Note: Remember to not disclose any confidential patient or organizational information in your post.

Response Guidelines

Review the responses of your peers and then choose one peer to whom you would like to respond. If possible, try to respond to someone who has not received a response on their post yet. In your response address one of the following:

Comment on what you have done, or observed being done, in a situation similar to that described in your peer’s post.

Propose an additional strategy or consideration that could have helped achieve positive outcomes for the case that your peer presented.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.