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4-6 pages.
Complete the following:
· Assess your chosen community to include socioeconomic and demographic data such as location, lifestyle, age, race, ethnicity, gender, marital status, income, education, employment. (Complete the windshield surveys first.)
· Choose a specific health concern or health need from the
Assessment 1 Supplement: Health Promotion Research [PDF] as the focus of your health promotion plan for your chosen community. Then, analyze a population within your community with the health concern or need you’ve chosen to focus on and the best practices for health improvement, based on supporting evidence. Consider underlying assumptions and points of uncertainty in your analysis.
Selected Health Concern in Liberia:
Substance Abuse in Adolescents: Substance abuse among adolescents involves the misuse of drugs or alcohol by individuals typically between the ages of 12 and 18. This can include experimenting with, regularly using, or becoming dependent on substances.
Potential Health Impacts: Adolescents who abuse substances are at risk for a range of health issues, including addiction, mental health disorders, and developmental problems. Substance abuse can impair cognitive and social development, leading to academic difficulties and strained family relationships. Long-term use can result in chronic health conditions and increased risk of accidents and injuries.
· Describe in detail the characteristics of your chosen community (Liberia) who will be the audience (Adolescents) for the activity you are planning and how those characteristics are relevant to what you’ve learned about the targeted population. Describe in detail the relevant information of who within this community is affected by your chosen health issue.
· Explain why the population you are focusing on in your community is predisposed to this health concern or health need and why they can benefit from a health promotion educational plan. Consider the factors that contribute to health, health disparities, and access to services. Support your conclusions with relevant population health and demographic data.
· Based on the health concern for your individual or group, discuss what you would include in the development of a sociogram. Take into consideration possible social, economic, cultural, genetic, and/or lifestyle behaviors that may have an impact on health as you develop your educational plan in this assessment. You will take this information into consideration when you present your educational plan in Assessment 4.
· Identify your chosen individual’s or group’s potential learning needs. Imagine the input of your audience if you were collaborating with the individual or group to establish the SMART goals that would be used to evaluate the education session (Assessment 4).
· Identify the individual or group’s current behaviors, outline clear expectations for this educational session, and offer suggestions for how the individual or group needs can be met. Health promotion goals need to be clear, measurable, and appropriate for this activity and audience. Consider goals that will foster behavior changes and lead to the desired outcomes.
Be sure to apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
· Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
· Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.
Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion in the scoring guide to see how your work will be assessed.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
· Competency 1: Analyze health risks and healthcare needs among distinct populations.
· Analyze a population within a chosen community with a health concern or need that is the focus of a health promotion plan.
· Describe in detail the characteristics of a chosen community who will be the audience for a health promotion and how those characteristics are relevant to a larger target community.
· Competency 2: Propose health promotion strategies to improve the health of populations.
· Explain why a health concern or need is important for health promotion within a community and population, supporting conclusions with relevant population health and demographic data.
· Establish health goals appropriate for a chosen individual or group of participants that are realistic, measurable, and attainable.
· Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead health promotion and improve population health.
· Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
· Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
Few links to research on Liberia substance abuse:
The Effect of Drug Abuse on Liberian Youth – Women Voices Newspaper
Holsoe, S.E., Jones, A.B., Petterson, D.R. (2026, January 31). Liberia. Encyclopedia Britannica.
