Assessing community requires: Hackensack NJ Data collection- each of the following needs to be included in your assessment. a. Existing, readily available data such as age, of residents, gender distribution, socioeconomic characteristics, racial distribution, vital statistics, community institutions, health care services. Collection of already reported data, such as minutes to applicable meetings, community programs, ongoing health surveys such as BRFSS or YBRSS, CDC website statistics, etc. related to topic. (Behavioral [or Youth] Risk Factor Surveillance System Report) Windshield Survey- Use the elements of windshield survey and the desсrіptions as a guide as you drive or walk through the defined community. Summarize the desсrіption in narrative or table format, describing each of the Elements. Some of the information needs to be obtained by gathering secondary data (statistics), which can be in column or table format. 2 key informant interviews- directed talks with selected community members, which include, informal leaders such as a minority Team member who has status in that community, church deacon, school nurse, social workers or other community member that represent or work with your community of interest. Summarize each informant interview. Questions should be similar for each informant. Literature review- What has been written about similar populations as yours? What is the research, identified problems and potential interventions about this type of population? this is a group so the only part I′m focusing on are ( religion, health and morbidity, politics, media) on the windshield survey components
