Your organization has created an initiative to improve one of the pervasive and chronic health concerns in the community. Some examples of possibilities for health improvement initiatives include type 2 diabetes, HIV, obesity, and communicable diseases. You will need to do your own research to gather and evaluate the relevant data for your chosen issue.

Chosen issue: obesity

Once you have created a presentation for the initiative, you have been asked to present to a group of community stakeholders. The purpose of your presentation is to inform and enlist support for the initiative from your audience.

The suggested headings for your presentation are:

· Community Data Evaluation.

· Meeting Community Needs.

· Measuring Outcomes.

· Communication Plan.

· Evidence.

In your presentation, you will:

· Evaluate the environmental and epidemiological data about your community to determine a population-focused priority for care.

· Identify the relevant data. This can be communicated in a table or chart.

· Describe the major population health issue suggested by the data within your community.

· Explain how environmental factors affect the health of community residents.

· Identify the level of evidence, validity, and reliability for each source.

· Explain what evidence in the current literature (published within the last five years) supports your evaluation of the data and the population focused priority of care you have selected.

· Develop an ethical health improvement plan with outcome criteria that addresses the population health priority that you identified in your evaluation.

· Consider the environmental realities and challenges existing in the community.

· Include interventions that will meet community needs.

· Address potential barriers or misunderstandings related to various cultures prevalent in the community.

· Propose criteria that can be used to evaluate the achievement of the plan’s outcomes for your population health improvement.

· Explain why your proposed criteria are appropriate and useful measures of success.

· Explain a plan to collaborate with a specific community organization to support the implementation of the population health improvement in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way.

· Identify the community stakeholders that are relevant to your Population Health Improvement Plan.

· Develop a clear communication strategy that is mindful of the cultural and ethical expectations of colleagues and community members regarding data privacy.

· Ensure that your strategy enables you to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to members of the community regardless of disabilities, language, or level of education.

· Explain the value and relevance of the evidence and technology resources used as the basis of a population health improvement plan.

· Explain why the evidence is valuable and relevant to the community health concern you are addressing.

· Explain why each piece of evidence is appropriate and informs the goal of improving the health of the community.

· Communicate the Evidence-Based Population Health Improvement Plan in a professional, effective manner that engages the community organization stakeholders and the community-at-large to implement and sustain change.

· What specific actions can the community stakeholders take themselves to build a feeling of community ownership in your plan?

· Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

· Length of submission: 5–7 slides. Balance text with visuals. Avoid text-heavy slides. Add detailed speaker notes to fully support the content of the presentation. Speaker notes must match the audio.

· Length of Video Presentation: No more than five minutes. Speaker notes must match the audio.

· Font and font size: Appropriate size and weight for a presentation, generally 24–28 points for headings; no smaller than 18 points for bullet-point text. Use a suitable professional typeface, such as Times or Arial, throughout the presentation.

· Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3–5 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Current source material is defined as no older than five years unless it is a seminal work.

· APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

· Competency 1: Apply evidence-based practice to plan patient-centered care.

· Explain a plan to collaborate with a specific community organization to support the implementation of the population health improvement in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way.

· Competency 2: Apply evidence-based practice to design interventions to improve population health.

· Develop an ethical health improvement plan with outcome criteria that addresses the population health priority for care identified in the evaluation.

· Competency 3: Evaluate the value, relevance, and ethics of available evidence upon which clinical decisions are made.

· Evaluate the environmental and epidemiological data about your community to determine a population-focused priority for care.

· Explain the value and relevance of the evidence and technology resources used as the basis of a population health improvement plan.

· Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.

· Communicates the Evidence-Based Population Health Improvement Plan in a professional, effective manner that engages the community organization stakeholders and the community-at-large to implement and sustain change.

· Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.