Session 6: Defining the Community and
Identifying Community Partners

Objectives for Session 6:

• Students will collect, tabulate, and interpret data to describe and define the health problem and the community affected by the problem.
• Students will identify resources and key constituents and stakeholders in the community relative to the health problem.
• Students will document the inclusion of organizations/stakeholders in addressing the community health problem.

Rootstown Orientation Session - October 15, 2007 

Orientation Activities (Oct 15, 1-2:00pm):

Rootstown faculty will:

• Describe the community problem as defined by the community agency.
• Discuss likely and unlikely community partners based on the identified health issue.
• Discuss how to define and describe the community affected by the health problem.
• Discuss where to find data for the Data Collection Summary Sheet.
• Discuss the relevance of the community problem to medicine.

Community Experience
October 16/18 or October 16 to 26, 2007 

Student Assignment (before Session 6 Community Experience):

• Review Healthy People 2010 for information related to your community health problem.
• Begin the Data Collection Summary Sheet.  Begin to consider demographics as it relates to the health problem.
• Read Chapters 2 and 3 of Patch.

Community Experience Activities (Oct 16/18 or Oct 16 to 26):

Students will:

• Discuss the health problem and its relevance to Healthy People 2010.
• Discuss sources for morbidity/mortality/behavioral data for health problem.
• Discuss the Inventory of Collaborating Groups with the community faculty.
• Discuss the population affected by the health problem.

Community faculty will:

• Direct students to sources for collecting data for the Data Collection Summary Sheet.
• Recommend potential community resources, individuals, and organizations that could become partners.
• Discuss how to identify and coordinate community resources.
• Discuss how to gain support within the community.
• Discuss social, cultural, and political issues that will need to be considered.
• Discuss your views on the relevance of the health problem to medicine.
• Suggest community leaders for students to interview.

Rootstown Session - October 29, 2007

Rootstown Session Activities (Oct 29, 2-3:00pm):

Rootstown faculty will:

• Discuss any problems with completing the Data Collection Summary Sheet.
• Discuss any problems with completing the Inventory of Collaborating Groups.
• Discuss where to find morbidity, mortality and behavioral data.
• Introduce objectives for Session 7.
• Introduce the concepts of contributing factors and attributable risk for Session 7.
• Discuss the scheduling of interviews with community leaders.

Student Assignment for Session 6 (Due Nov 2, Noon):

• Complete the Data Collection Summary Sheet.  
• Complete the Inventory of Collaborating Groups.
• Schedule the interviews with community leaders.

Student Assignment (before Session 7 Community Experience):

• Read Chapters 4 and 5 of PATCH.
• Identify at least two contributing factors to the community health problem based on the data collected which relate to the home-based agency’s mission.

Resources for Session 6:

Healthy People 2010 Documents   http://www.healthypeople.gov/Document/tableofcontents.htm

National Center for Health Statistics   http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hphome.htm

Census Bureau  http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

                        http://www.census.gov/

                      http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

Ohio Department of Health, http://dwhouse.odh.ohio.gov/

National Center for Health Statistics, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hphome.htm

Centers for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/states/ohio.htm

R. W. Fletcher & S. W. Fletcher: Chapter 2. Abnormality

                                                    Chapter 4. Frequency

Epi Super Course Lecture “ Standardization Rates”

http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec0491/index.htm

Session 6: Form 1

Data Collection Summary Sheet

Community Health Problem:

Healthy People 2010 Objectives:

Demographic Data (of the population affected by the health problem):

Unemployment rate: _______

Per capita income: _________  or Annual Median Household income: ____________

% of Families below poverty level:  _________

Age distribution: 

% younger than 18: ___    % 65 and older:___

Martial Status:

% Single: ___   % Married:___   %Widowed: ___   %Divorced___

Racial/ethnic composition:

% Hispanic:___   % African American:___   %White:___

%Asian American:___   % Native American:___                                                          

Education:

 % who finished High School:____   % with a college degree: ____

Note: Only use those categories of groups that are relevant to your health problem.  For example, you might list three agricultural agencies but no business groups.