Select one initiative from the Healthy People 2030 model and discuss how evidence-based practice (EBP) was used to promote a healthy community. 7th ed APA Professional format required. Use reference from an English titled peer

Evidence-Based Practice in Promoting a Healthy Community

One of the initiatives and goals of the Healthy People 2030 Model was to eliminate health disparities in the community. Health disparities are health differences in the community associated with economic, social, and environmental disadvantages (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2020). Communities are affected negatively by health disparities due to their backgrounds, such as through racial discrimination. Health disparities in the community occur due to discrimination based on race, gender, age, physical disability, and mental health. The Healthy People 2030 Model achieves the goal by providing relevant data to the relevant stakeholders, such as the government.

How Evidence-based Practice was used to promote a Healthy Community

Evidence-based practice involves implementing interventions in the community with solid evidence or rationale for implementing the interventions. Evidence-based practice was used to promote a healthy community through revisiting existing data and studies conducted in the community. Studies were done in communities to identify health disparities in the community and the best ways of eliminating the disparities (Bowers, 2018). Studies, government agencies, and organizations take and record relevant data in the community, such as the number of sick people and the number of deaths. The data from health agencies and studies were analyzed to find the best way of reducing health disparities, such as through the provision of health insurance to people.

Health studies in the community provide relevant data and evidence-based intervention for dealing with health disparities in the communities. Therefore, relevant stakeholders analyzed the data in the studies and assessed the effectiveness of the interventions recommended in the research based on the evidence used. The intervention was then implemented in the community to reduce health disparities (Bowers, 2018). For example, there was enough evidence of electronic health records and mHealth reducing disparities in the community resulting from racism. With evidence-based practices in the community, patient outcomes improved, and health disparities reduced (Allender et al., 2013).

 References

Allender, J., Rector, C., Rector, C., & Warner, K. (2013). Community & public health nursing: Promoting the public’s health. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Bowers, B. (2018). Evidence-based practice in community nursing. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2018.23.7.336

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2020). Criteria for selecting the leading health indicators for Healthy People 2030.