The final step with any population health issue is evaluating the intervention. What evidence or data will you be able to evaluate to know if the intervention you selected positively impacted the problem/issue?
In addition to the evaluation it is also essential to consider the costs involved relative to the benefits of the intervention.
Identification of a population health problem typically arises from population data. The data can be generated locally by a specific practice, health care system, public health system, or through regional or state data aggregation, such as the County Health Rankings. Once data exposes a health problem, interventions can be designed to address it. If the intervention has an effect, that effect should be reflected in the post-intervention population data. An evaluation of the intervention might involve a review of the population data over time for trends indicating any change (or no change) in the problem.
The Population Health Proposal – Part 3 assignment will be constructed in a presentation format. All in-text and reference citations need to be formatted consistent with 7th edition APA guidelines.
The presentation needs to be a minimum of 10 slides and include the following:
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Slide 1 – Title slide
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Slide 2 – A brief description of the significant health or health-related problem you identified from review of the data (supported with references). This is the same problem discussed in your Part 1 assignment.
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Slide 3 – an overview of the intervention that you selected to address the problem (supported with references). This is the same intervention that you discussed in your Part 2 assignment.
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Slide 4 – A brief overview of how outcomes of your selected intervention will be evaluated.
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Slide 5 – An overview of the evaluation measure(s) you will utilize to determine if your selected intervention was effective?
· Below are some examples of ways you may wish to approach or describe how you would evaluate the intervention discussed in your Part 2 paper:
· A process evaluation (e.g. how many patients are participating in the intervention; example – how many got their flu shots? or participated in the screening event? etc.).
· An outcome evaluation (e.g. reporting on whether the identified health problem/issue increased, decreased, or stayed the same, etc.)
· A direct measure (e.g. the patients/community members learned how to . . . [do what? participate in what? etc.] ).
· An indirect measure (e.g. after initiating the online portal, fewer patients are using [other services]
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NOTE
: advanced graduate level scholarship requires a well-articulated and in-depth overview of the identified measure(s); consider utilizing the ‘Notes’ section of the slide if needed to provide additional details
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Be sure to support your selected evaluation measure(s) and approaches with scholarly resources.
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Slides 6, 7, and 8 – Include a cost-benefit analysis for the intervention, weighing potential costs associated with the intervention against potential benefits derived by the patients/community members from engaging with the intervention. Ensure the slide discussions include information about human resources (slide 6), capital resources (slide 7), and material resources (slide 8). If the proposal does not encompass one of these 3 categories of resources use the appropriate number slide to discuss why the resource is not needed for your proposal.
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NOTE
: advanced graduate level scholarship requires a well-articulated and in-depth overview of the potential costs and benefits; consider utilizing the ‘Notes’ section of the slide if needed to provide additional details
NOTE:
Be sure to support your discussion of resources with scholarly resources.
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Slide 9 – a summary of your thoughts about your population health proposal.
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Slide 10 (or more) – Reference citations list
