NSG 4076 Week 2 Project – Describing the Aggregate

Tectum Medical Research LLC is the facility on which I have selected to work for my capstone project, and it is also the facility on which I will concentrate my focus during the aggregate community windshield survey. The institution is located in the city of Hollywood in the state of Florida. Tectum Medical Research LLC is a community health centre that provides health-related services to those who live in the surrounding area. The majority of the employees who work in the facility are between the ages of 25 and 60; however, for my aggregate, I selected those between the ages of 30 and 50. Hollywood is a city in the state of Florida that is located in Broward County. With a projected population of 155,689 in 2020, it is the 12th most populous city in Florida and the 164th most populous city in the United States. At the moment, Hollywood’s population is growing at a rate of 0.28 per cent per year and has increased by 10.60 per cent since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 140,768 people in Hollywood with a poverty rate of 12.65% and a median household income of $77,981. Currently, the median rent is $1,217 per month, with a median property price of $254,000. Hollywood’s median age is 41.6 years, with men being on average 39.8 years old and women on average 43.3 years old.

A developer from California named Joseph Wesley Young laid out the town’s layout in 1921, and it was officially established in 1925. Before that, Hollywood was covered in pine and palmetto trees, with a few tomato farms. After a devastating hurricane devastated the city in 1926, a tremendous effort was made to reconstruct it. After World War II, the city experienced significant growth.

Cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of mortality in the Hollywood, Florida, region. Cancer is the top cause of death in males, but heart disease and stroke are the leading. Causes of death in women (Barge-Schaapveld et al., 2018). The prevalence of HIV/AIDS and syphilis in this county is much greater than the prevalence of these diseases throughout the entire state. Compared to women of the same age, males of 18 years and older are slightly obese, as are females of the same age. An individual’s life expectancy in Hollywood is 76 years. A total of 37,810 cases of COVID-19 have been documented in Broward County, according to the county’s public health department, and the area has a high prevalence of community transmission in general.

The reason why I chose this community and aggregate is that COVID-19 community transmission is common in this area, which necessitates developing preventative ways to help reduce transmission. The second reason is that understanding how social interaction contributes to the spread of COVID-19 and what measures would be most effective in preventing its growth would be useful, especially in public places where the rate of interactivity occurs at a higher rate. In addition, I would like to know why cancer and heart disease are on the rise and what may be done to lower the mortality rates connected with these conditions.