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35701Milestone 1: Caring for Populations Milestone Community Windshield Survey Guidelines

Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to complete a direct observational assessment of a community in your area. ( I live in Detroit, Michigan). This windshield survey will be the initial step in uncovering a community health problem in your area and identifying community dynamics.

Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcome.
CO2: Assess the health needs of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities using demographic and epidemiological data to identify population health risks.

Directions:

Guidelines
Below are the requirements needed for successful completion of the Windshield Survey Form.

1. Introduction to the Community: Identify the community you will be using for this assignment with the city and state (Detroit, Michigan) and provide a brief, one paragraph description of the community. You do not need to include demographic data.

2. Windshield Survey: Assess your community by doing a windshield survey. Information about the components of a windshield survey is located in your textbook, Nies & McEwen (2015) on page 98 (Box 6-2). Drive through the area and report your observations by describing each of the following six areas using a majority of the questions from each category of Box 6-2 as your guide (one to two in depth paragraphs for each category). Be sure to include what you observed related to each of these categories, and also include any significant items that are missing in your community because this may be equally important in identifying a community health problem.
1. Community vitality
2. Indicators of social and economic conditions
3. Health resources
4. Environmental conditions related to health
5. Social functioning
6. Attitude toward healthcare

3. Vulnerable population: Identify an aggregate or vulnerable population in your community based on your observations. What did you observe about this population? See Units five (5) and six (6) in Nies and McEwen (2015) for examples of vulnerable populations and aggregates.

4. Conclusion: Provide a summary of your findings. Describe several potential community health problems for the vulnerable population that you identified.
References: The purpose of this assignment is to document your observations of your community. no outside references