Community Assessment Assignment

Running head: COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT
COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT ASSIGNMENT
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Introduction
Community assessment is known as the process using which strengths, weaknesses,
needs and assets of any specific community could be identified (Laymon et al. 2015).
Community assessment is the amalgamation of three steps in which the present state of the
community is assessed, its desired situation within a specific time period is visualized and then a
comparison between the actual state and visualized condition is achieved (Stanhope and
Lancaster 2015). This paper would also talk about the community assessment conducted to
understand the demographical, psychosocial, health services and community infrastructure
associated to goods and services of the city of Horizon, which is a fictional, virtual city
established by the University of South Australia. The primary aim of this assessment would be
identifying the community needs and its effect on the evolution of the community and then
would planning strategies to deliver those needs to overcome potential risk of hazards (Giger
2016). Besides conducting community assessment for city of Horizon, this paper will provide a
detail of healthcare associated needs of the community and then would establish the role of
health promotion events in advocating, mediating and enabling the meeting of the needs for the
community.
Part A: Community assessment
A.1. Profile and analysis of demography
The city of Horizon is located at the south-east coastal region of South Australia. This
city is 320 Kilometer away from Adelaide. The demographic of this city is made up of complete
land and few water bodies. Due to the geographical presence in between two metropolitan cities,
Adelaide and Melbourne, the city has become the primary tourist attraction for people who are

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willing to visit limestone coast. The geographical location of this city is between Melbourne and
Adelaide with the coastal area of south Australian sea and the elevation level is 1210 ft above the
sea level. The climate of this area is composed of average 78 degree Fahrenheit as the maximum
temperature recorded and 49 degree Fahrenheit as minimum temperature. Due to these, the
average annual temperature of this city is around 62 degree Fahrenheit. Further, being a coastal
area the weather of this city is pleasant and extreme conditions are witnessed rarely (University
of South Australia 2019). The population of this city, as is 30,000 and the age distribution of
this area is composed of 10.1% of people under 5 years of age, 37.4% under 18 years of age,
6.5% above the age of 65 and within the complete population, 49.8% are female. Therefore,
equal gender distribution is witnessed in the demographic of this city. Within this population,
number of unmarried individuals were higher than that of the married couples therefore, single,
widowed and separated individual were the large portion of society of the city of Horizon
(University of South Australia 2019). This reflected in the family composition of the city, as
majority of the children are infants or adolescents where 52% children are of 6 to 9 years, 28%
of 8 to 17 years and 12% were higher than that. The ethnic diversity of the population could be
understood from the fact that they are strong believer of multicultural society and due to this
their sociality composition is inclusive of main land Chinese community, Indians, Hispanic,
Philippines, aboriginal Australians and British (University of South Australia 2019).
A.2. Psychosocial profile:
These are the aspects which affects the health and wellbeing of the community, such as
education, employment, housing, income, law enforcements, leadership arrangement, emergency
services, and transport and community services (Stoops et al. 2016). The education profile of
this community was inclusive of preschool and learning centres for infants and children, primary