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Nurs 604, Topics in Community Health Nursing

Assignment

Develop an intervention for a particular health program using community health nursing process, applying principles of community assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation.

The focus for 2009-2010 is the Latino/Latina community and the health problem options are

  • mental health
  • heart disease
  • obesity
  • reproductive health
  • diabetes/metabolic syndrome.

Community Assessment

Strategies for finding information for your group project

I. Start at the home page of major organizations

Investigate A-Z lists, search boxes, side menus, top tabs.

Open pdfs of comprehensive reports and look at the reference sections.

Where did the researchers obtain their information?

Locate these primary sources (Google the complete document name, inside double quotes).

II. Use broad overarching searching tools

Google Uncle Sam searches only for government documents, federal or state.

Google Scholar searches only in the scholarly literature.

WorldCat.org searches the world's libraries. You may request to have a book delivered to the Good Library from another library (interlibrary loan) from directly within WorldCat.

Add keywords such as statistics, Latino, Latina, Hispanic, mental health to your search strings.

III. Federally sponsored information sources

State and County Quick Facts. U.S. Census Bureau. Elkhart County, Indiana. 4 Sept. 2009.

Statistical Abstract: 2009. U.S. Census Bureau. Updated 5 Oct. 2009.

The Hispanic Population in the United States: 2008 Detailed Tables. U.S. Census Bureau. 29 Sept. 2009.

Health of Hispanic or Latino Population. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 15 May 2009.

Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities: Hispanic or Latino Populations. CDC. 15 Sept. 2009.

IV. State of Indiana sponsored information sources

Office of Minority Health. Indiana State Department of Health. No date.

Interagency Council on Black and Minority Health (pdf). 2008 report, Indiana State Department of Health. 17 Dec. 2008.

V. Health issues by category

Mental health

National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health. 2008.

Critical Disparities in Latino Mental Health (pdf). Institute for Hispanic Health. July, 2002.

Heart disease

Heart Disease and Hispanic Americans. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Minority Health. 28 July 2009.

Hispanics and Cardiovascular Disease (pdf). Biostatistical Fact Sheet: Populations. American Heart Association. 2002 (data from 1999).

Obesity

Differences in Prevelance of Obesity among Black, White, and Hispanic Adults: United States, 2006-2008. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC. 17 July 2009

Obesity and Hispanic Americans. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Minority Health. 27 July 2009.

Reproductive health

HIV/AIDS among Hispanic/Latinos. CDC. 8 Oct. 2009.

Family and Cultural Influences on Sex among Latino Youth. Adolescent Reproductive Health: Research. CDC. 17 May 2009.

Diabetes/metabolic syndrome

Hispanic/Latinos and Diabetes. National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse. National Institutes of Health. Jan. 2009.

Diabetes and Hispanic Americans. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Minority Health. 30 July 2009.

A Socioeconomic Analysis of Obesity and Diabetes in New York City. Preventing Chronic Disease. CDC. 3 July 2009.

Updated 22-Oct-2009 SWH