Population and Community Healthcare Needs

Population and Community Healthcare Needs

Instructions: Imagine you are a manager at the local health department in your community.  You would like to collaborate with your care team to identify priorities for advancing the overall health and wellbeing of the patients you serve in the community. For this assignment, spend some time exploring the Healthy People 2030 website and objectives and answer the following questions/prompts: 

Describe the purpose of the Healthy People initiative.

How can health department managers use Healthy People as a tool in their community?

Select a minority or disadvantaged group in your community, such as migrants, ethnic or cultural differences, race, gender, or age group and describe the population of interest.

Identify and describe two Healthy People 2030 Objectives that your practice could use to help improve the health and wellbeing of the population described in question 3.