NURS FPX 6218 Assessment 4 Advocating for Lasting Change Brief Overview of Environmental Analysis of Jordan Community Through Windshield Survey

Through a windshield and environmental analysis, we analyzed the environmental condition of the Jordan community, which enhanced our understanding of its positive features and the lacking areas where further improvements are required.

Positive Features of Jordan Community:

The small town has basic amenities where children and young adolescents can go to school, community dwellers can shop around, go to recreational places, and acquire healthcare services from hospitals. The community members were resilient and eager to tackle health issues collaboratively as they showed an amicable bond with the neighborhood. All members were willing to stand for a change that ensured a sound and healthy community.

Areas for Improvements:

The Jordan community lacked in certain areas that jeopardized their overall health and impacted their quality of life. The prevailing mental health issues among school students caused havoc as a student committed suicide. Moreover, the scarcity of maximum coverage of health insurance among community members and financial issues in procuring medication for managing chronic conditions were significant health challenges. These areas required intricate attention, which our change proposal is keenly addressing and has the potential to improve these lacking areas.

Social Determinants Impacting Community Health

Several social determinants of health impact community health, the major factors being education and economic instability. While several school institutions were established for the community’s growing kids and youth, the educational systems lacked health literacy, which impacted students’ mental health. Moreover, the economic instability in most of the population hindered them from acquiring essential health services as they could not get full health insurance coverage and needed to rely on self-financing for treatments. Additionally, the financial constraints burdened populations with chronic diseases who could not manage them as they could not purchase prescribed medications. These social determinants of health are adequately touched upon through our change proposal through appropriate resource allocation and support from local health advocates.

Change Proposal Framework

Our change proposal was built on the following framework that could improve the lacking areas of the Jordan community where health was profoundly impacted.

• Conducting interaction-based mental health programs in schools to provide mental health support to affected students and manage their thinking patterns.
• Creating health insurance improvement plans where expanded access to Medicaid and Medicare services is advocated by community leaders and health advocates.
• Empowering the population to acquire health insurance coverage by enrolling into ACA’s policy for treatment care in patients with pre-existing and chronic health conditions. The goals and objectives include reduced suicide attempts among children and young adolescents, an increased population with complete health insurance coverage, and an enhanced number of community members with adequate knowledge of ACA policy for chronic diseases to improve their health outcomes.

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