For this assessment you will develop a brief, 3-5 page intervention and health promotion plan for improving the quality of care and outcomes for the health care need in the population addressed in your previous assessments.
Introduction
Note: Complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
Health can be affected by social and lifestyle behaviors. In fact, many would argue that many, if not most, health risks can be mitigated through lifestyle and behavioral changes. With this in mind, the health care provider must be aware of the socioeconomic factors and the lifestyle factors present in a population. There are many lifestyle factors that are influenced by both social and cultural factors. Living environment, housing conditions, employment factors, diet, and cultural beliefs all play a role in a person’s levels of risk and resulting health.
Communication patterns can play a major role in health care program delivery and in the comprehension and understanding of health promotion efforts targeted to multicultural populations. It is imperative that health care providers understand the barriers associated with health care access for diverse groups, merely due to communication obstacles. Ethnic disparities in health can be exacerbated by lack of culturally competent health communication.
Health promotion plans can help to organize strategies for communication and addressing obstacles and disparities as they seek to drive improve health care outcomes.
Intervention and health promotion plans are key tools for health care organizations and professionals. These types of plans lay out specific components of interventions and health promotion strategies for targeted needs and populations. These plans can also ensure that best practices and strategies are appropriately adapted to the context of the care setting in which the plan will be implemented. Additionally, intervention and health promotion plans can help ensure that considerations beyond the specific health care need, such as workforce realities, the cultural competence of staff, and the desire (and ability) for staff to apply cross-cultural collaboration strategies are taken into account.
Preparation
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
This assessment will be based around creating a holistic intervention and health promotion plan for improving the quality of care and outcomes for the health care need for the population or group that you have been using as the basis for your previous assessments.
- What are the major components of your plan?
- How will these components lead to improvements related to your identified need?
- Why are these components the best option to address your identified need?
- What are the cultural needs and characteristics of your target population for this project?
- What aspects of the target population’s cultural characteristics impact the development of your plan components?
- How will the cultural needs of the population impact the development of your plan components?
- What best practices related to working with diverse and vulnerable populations are relevant to your plan?
- How will they impact the design of the plan components?
- What epidemiological evidence and best practices are relevant to your plan?
- How will they impact the design of the plan components?
- What resources and strategies related to cross-cultural collaboration are most relevant to your care setting and target population?
Scenario
Your project team has developed a foundational understanding about best practices and approaches from others in the health care field for your identified health need and community, state, and populations or groups. The team has now been asked to develop an intervention and health promotion plan. Your goal is to design a holistic plan that should be able to improve the quality of care and outcomes for your identified health need and groups. Your holistic approach will consider epidemiological and population health considerations, as well as relevant economic, cultural, spiritual, and environmental aspects of both the patients and the organization.
Instructions
Your intervention and health promotion plan design should provide enough detail so that stakeholders and leadership reading it will be able to have a clear picture of how you intend to pursue improvements in the quality of care and outcomes. However, it should not be so detailed that there is no flexibility in the design to respond to challenges as they might appear during implementation.
The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your submission addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Intervention and Health Promotion Plan for Diverse Populations Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed. You may wish to structure your plan using the headings below.
Part 1: Intervention and Health Promotion Plan
- Explain the major components of an intervention and health promotion plan that will help guide improvements in the quality of care and outcomes related to a specific health need of a community.
- Explain the major components of an intervention and health promotion plan that will help guide improvements in the quality of care and outcomes that are most relevant to a specific diverse or vulnerable group in a community.
Part 2: Evidence-Based Foundations
- Analyze epidemiological evidence and best practices that support the proposed intervention and health promotion plan.
- Analyze evidence and best practices for working with diverse and vulnerable populations that support the proposed intervention and health promotion plan.
Part 3: Cross-Cultural Collaborative Opportunities and Strategies
- Propose potential staff education activities to better improve the ability of health care professionals to collaborate cross-culturally with patients, community stakeholders, and colleagues.
Address Generally Throughout
- Communicate intervention and health promotion plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed plan and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account.
- Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Additional Requirements
- Length of submission: 3–5 pages, double spaced.
- Number of resources: A minimum of 5–7 resources. (You may use resources you previously cited in Assessments 1 and 2.)
- APA formatting: Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] to help you in writing and formatting your analysis.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Assess population health to guide health promotion and disease prevention initiatives.
- Explain the major components of an intervention and health promotion plan that will help guide improvements in the quality of care and outcomes related to a specific health need of a community.
- Competency 2: Apply basic epidemiological concepts and tools to understand health care needs.
- Analyze epidemiological evidence and best practices that support the proposed intervention and health promotion plan.
- Competency 3: Analyze how cultural, ethnic, traditional, and spiritual principles relate to clinical prevention, population health, and health disparities in diverse and vulnerable populations.
- Explain the major components of an intervention and health promotion plan that will help guide improvements in the quality of care and outcomes that are most relevant to a specific diverse or vulnerable group in a community.
- Analyze evidence and best practices for working with diverse and vulnerable populations that support the proposed intervention and health promotion plan.
- Propose potential staff education activities to better improve the ability of health care professionals to collaborate cross-culturally with patients, community stakeholders, and colleagues.
- Competency 4: Communicate effectively across disciplines, demonstrating respect for self and others.
- Communicate intervention and health promotion plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed plan and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account.
- Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
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