Using Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns framework (p. 130 in your e-text), assess the health risks in your community.

In your community assessment paper, include the following:

• Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings (1–2 paragraphs).
• Refer to Table 8-2: Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns, and assess the strengths and concerns of your community (2–3 paragraphs).
• Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstorm  ways of addressing these barriers (2–3 paragraphs).

Your paper should be 2–3 pages in length, not including the cover and reference pages. Use APA throughout.

You must include 2–3 sources that are APA cited and referenced in your paper. (Sources may include community resources such as flyers, brochures, interviews, news stories, and local research data from credible sources.)

 

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

 

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 

Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns framework

Introduction

Gordon is a functional health pattern that can be used to help you identify and solve problems related to your body and mind. He’s designed this framework to help you understand how your perception of yourself affects how well your body functions. This knowledge will enable you to make better decisions about what works best for your health and wellbeing.

Health Perception-Health Management

• Health perception is the way you think about your health. For example, if you believe that exercise is good for you and that eating healthy foods will help keep you healthy, these are your health perceptions.

• Health management is how you manage your health. It’s important to note that these two things interact together; for example, if someone believes in certain types of physical activity but doesn’t eat well enough then this may impact their overall health status negatively (i.e., poor diet).

• Finally, it’s important to note that there are many different factors involved here: mental fitness comes into play as well!

Nutritional-Metabolic

• Nutrition and metabolism

The importance of nutrition is well-established. A diet high in whole foods, nutrient dense foods that can be easily digested, and low in processed carbohydrates is the best way to ensure you are getting adequate nutrients for your body to function optimally. Your diet should also include plenty of fresh produce that contains vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds.

• Gut Microbiome

The gut microbiome has been shown to play an important role in regulating immune function; this means it can impact your health tremendously if you have an unhealthy gut microbiome or if you’re not getting enough beneficial bacteria from food sources such as yogurt or kimchi (for example). You may want to consider taking probiotics supplements such as those made by Life Sciences Nutritionals® which contain healthy strains of bacteria found naturally within the digestive tract rather than just supplementing with pre-packaged powders made up solely from other species like lactobacillus acidophilus or bifidobacterium infantis

Elimination

Elimination is the most important part of your digestive system. When you eliminate properly, it means that waste material is being removed from the body and sent out of your system through urination or defecation.

Elimination occurs in two parts: intestinal elimination (also called stool production) and renal elimination (also called urine production). During intestinal elimination, digested food enters the small intestine where bacteria break down proteins into amino acids; these amino acids are then absorbed by cells lining this area. The end products of protein digestion are passed into the large intestine where they can be further broken down by various factors present there including enzymes produced by gut flora species known as “flora” for short.*

Activity-Exercise

Exercise is a crucial part of your mental health plan. It can help improve sleep, manage pain and mood, and even increase confidence in the face of daily stressors. The best way to start exercising is by setting realistic goals for yourself—and then meeting those goals!

If you’re new to exercise or haven’t been in awhile because of an injury or other reason, make sure that when you start out with a workout routine it’s something that will be manageable on your schedule (like walking). When starting out with an exercise program like yoga or Pilates Pilates are perfect because they aren’t too difficult but still provide plenty of benefits for both mind & body so try these first before diving into more intense workouts like running/jogging/etc

Sleep-Rest

Sleep-Rest

This pattern is characterized by a regular cycle of sleep and wakefulness, which is controlled by the body clock. It may be disrupted by changes in lighting, noise and temperature. For example, if you go to bed at a different time each night or have an alarm set for your phone rather than for your body clock, this can affect how well you sleep during the night. The average person needs 7-8 hours of total sleep each night; however, some people need less while others need more depending on their age and gender.

Cognitive-Perceptual

The cognitive-perceptual component is the way a person perceives, thinks about and remembers. This includes how they use their senses to interact with the world around them as well as how they think about themselves and others.

The cognitive-perceptual component includes four areas: perception; thinking; memory; future planning.

Self-Perception-Self-Concept

Self-perception is how you perceive yourself, and self-concept is your perception of who you are. These two terms can be confusing because they mean different things. When we think about a person’s self-concept, it’s usually referring to something like “I am a good friend.” When we talk about their self-percept, this may mean “I’m strong,” or even more specific than that—it might say something like “I can lift 200 pounds in compound lifts.”

So what’s the difference between these two? The first part of this framework focuses on trying to understand how individuals’ perceptions of their own physical abilities match up with reality. For example: if I ask my wife if she thinks she has an accurate idea about her own strength (i.e., does she know herself well enough?), then there will probably be some differences between what she thinks is true for herself versus what actually happens when she tries out new exercises at the gym or does pull ups off of bars in our garage door!

Role Relationship

In the role relationship category, you can look at how your family and friends respond to you. Do they support your goals? Are they helpful or harmful in helping you achieve them? You may also want to consider how important other roles are for your health. For example, if there is a negative relationship with a coworker at work, it could have an impact on your physical well-being and mental health.

Sexuality-Reproductive

Sexuality-Reproductive

The Sexuality-Reproductive module is about physical intimacy and relationships. It includes the following topics:

• Sex: Everything you need to know about your body, pleasure and arousal

• Relationships: How to create healthy relationships that last a lifetime

Takeaway:

The takeaway is the most important part of any article. It’s where you should remember what the author said, and it’s also where you should take action.

The takeaway is your summary of what was covered in this article, so make sure it’s concise and clear!

Conclusion

Well, Gordon’s framework is a bit too complex for me to wrap my head around. But it does seem that this kind of approach could have its benefits in helping people understand how their health changes over time. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if the framework itself gets amended or even replaced by another model in the future—after all, our understanding of human biology is constantly evolving as new research comes out and new theories emerge