NURS FPX 6218 Assessment 2 Assessing Community Health Care Needs Executive Summary General Condition and Public Health Needs

Jordan is a small town located in Scott County Minnesota. A survey shows that the population of Jordan in 2023 is about 7,013 (World Population Review, 2023). The overall median age of people is nearly 31 years. The calculated median age for males is about 30.6. The calculated median age for females is about 31.6. The health needs and resources of the Jordan community were assessed with the help of a Windfield survey. According to the Windfield Survey, the community has city halls, middle, elementary, and high schools, a library, and healthcare departments for providing medical services. The presence of holy places i.e, churches, centers for education and community activities, shopping areas and plazas, and gardens were also found in the survey (Capella University, n.d.). The data from the survey shows that people in Jordan are living and enjoying a better life because of the availability of resources. The middle and high schools in Jordan are renovated and provide art programs, athletics, and academic-related extracurricular activities. The elementary school at 815 Sunset Dr. offers many enrichment programs and uses modern technology to encourage the students for learning new skills. The community provides good health services that include inpatient, outpatient, and emergency medical care. For recreational activities, the community provides three gym stations, walking tracks, and fitness centers. For religious purposes, the community has churches like Hope Lutheran church and the Baptist church. For the older population, there is a community called Oak Terrace senior living that provides assisted living and memory care to the old persons. The Jordan community provides a residential area that provides well-maintained homes. Fresh markets, shopping plazas, and grocery stores are available in the area. Overall the condition of the community is good but some factors need to be improved for providing better services to people.

The data from the World population review shows that there are various racial groups living in Jordan that includes White, Black or African American, and Asians (World Population Review, 2023). Most of the people in Jordan died due to health diseases that include heart complications (18%), cancer (15%), and stroke (12%) (CDC, 2019). The community needs to take health initiatives to reduce the risks associated with dangerous diseases. The healthcare services (nutrition support, diagnostic care, mental health care), fire risks, and air quality in Jordan also need improvement (Data USA, n.d.). The physical environment factors are the air quality index and fire risks. They directly impacted the health conditions of people in the community (Jaffe et al., 2020). The limitation of the survey is that it did not consider the statistical data for ethnic groups in the community. The statistical data is important to analyze the percentage of ethnic groups to properly evaluate needs and resources. The factors that caused risks to me while conducting the survey were crime and theft in the Jordan community. As the reports from crime grade data show after every two days and 12 hours a crime happened in Jordan (Crime Grade Data, n.d.). This was a serious safety concern for me in the survey conduction. A study by Hardman et al. (2020) stated that lower socioeconomic status resulted in health disparities and inequities. Eguiluz‐Gracia et al. (2020) evaluated that the quality of air directly impacted the health condition of people. Clean air is crucial for the well-being of individuals. So the factors of socioeconomic status, air quality, and crime rate need to be addressed in the Jordan community to improve the health conditions of people. 

Environmental Analysis

The environmental analysis help in identifying the internal and external factors that affect people’s health and well-being. The question that I am trying to answer is about the environmental factors that affect the health and well-being of people living in the Jordan community. The first environmental factor is the quality of the water. The data shows that the quality of water is not good as it contains lead, copper, oxides, microbial and radioactive contaminants. These contaminants deteriorate the quality of water. These contaminants are more vulnerable to immune-compromised patients, infants, and pregnant women (JordanMN, 2021). The WHO reports show that contaminated water results in many diseases like cholera, diarrhea, and hepatitis (World Health Organization, 2019). The second environmental factor is air quality as the data shows that the air quality index of Jordan is 77 and it results in 24.2% of respiratory illnesses in Jordan (Best Places, n.d.). Poor air quality results in chronic airway diseases that badly affect the lungs and bronchitis (Burney & Amaral, 2019). The third factor is the socioeconomic status of people belonging to diff