Detailed Community Health Assessment Report: Alberta Analysis

This report presents a comprehensive community health assessment of Alberta, examining various aspects including its definition, boundaries, financial and educational levels, ethnic and phenomenological features, and social interactions. The assessment identifies the community's interests, goals, barriers, and challenges, particularly in communication and health access. It delves into the social determinants of health, highlighting issues like poor housing and limited resources. The report summarizes existing health programs and partnerships, including community-hospital and family-hospital collaborations, along with insights from interviews with community health providers. Key findings reveal poor health outcomes linked to low education levels and poverty, while emphasizing the community's willingness to support healthcare initiatives. The assessment concludes with opportunities for health promotion and a detailed analysis of the community's overall health status.

Description of a Community
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Description of community
 It is a social unit that share common values, customs, norms , religion or
identity, (Nagle, 2017).
 They are located in a common geographical area such as a town, neighborhood
or a village and share sense through platforms of communication.
 Everybody comes from a community and contributes to it either positively or
negatively through self actions or words .
 A person may come from a rural community, urban or a sub urban community.

Definition of the community
 The community that was assessed is Alberta.
 Alberta is a geopolitical community. The health practitioner identified various
geographical and jurisdictional boundaries. The are five rural municipalities in
the community which are easily identified on a map. The municipalities are
known to almost everybody in the community.
 There are various rules that has been agreed upon by the community members in
the establishment of social boundaries. The established social boundaries enable
quick accessibility of people or a person one is in need of. One of the social
boundaries is that men and women in tis society are not allowed to sit in the
same benches.
 The social boundaries are used in guiding the acceptable behaviors in the
society and are followed by majority of the people, (Stoleroff, 2013).

Definition of community boundaries
 Neighborhood boundaries are easily identifiable. Community members noted
the features that separate one village from the other. These boundaries makes
the community organized and help in their association towards each other.
There are rivers including river hernia and valleys.
 Neighborhood boundaries are put into consideration because people of the
community interact with each other on daily basis.
 The boundaries were created for historical purposes and it seems hard to know
where they start or end, but the members of the community familiarize with
them too well.
 They are part of the community and form communities. Members therein
share the same type of experiences , same quality of life in regard to the
surrounding features and same impacts of social problems such as crime.

Financial and educational level of
the community
 Most of the community members in Alberta are low level income earners who
depend on unpredictable source of income.
 The people under white collar jobs are 20% of the total population, an
indication that there is a high poverty level in the community.
 Most of the people report not to have gone to school and currently, majority
have decided to take their children to school who receive substandard
education because of school dropout.
 Most of the people are uneducated and majority people received primary
education level as the highest level of education.
 A big gap exists between those who went up to college/tertiary levels where
their life is of high quality.
 There is a good relationship between the uneducated and the educated in the
community.

ethnic and phenomenological
features of the community
 People in Alberta community are of the same ethnicity. They share common
cultural products which includes language, traditions defined by the community
attire, customs defined by the community seasonal practices , territorial
association and food defined by the community cooking common meals
especially the traditional dishes.
 It is a phenomenological community where they share common relationships,
same community values and interests, common goals and have common beliefs
towards God and natural phenomenon, (Maurer & Smith, 2013).
 It has a relational designation and there are various social and religious groups
that are organized for a common purpose as according to their mission statement.

The community social interaction
 Social interaction acts as every community’s building block.
 Through interaction with each other, people come up with rules that guide
them in their way of living. These rules are designed in institutions and also in
systems that the people opt to live in.
 In this community, social interaction is mostly in form of competition ,
cooperation and exchange, (Forrester, 2014).
 Competition occurs during events of cultural activities such as dances where
groups compete with the other, and the winning group is rewarded. Through
these competitions, many people are brought together hence facilitating social
interactions.
 Communal activities such as clearing of paths is done via cooperation , tasks
that too create room for social interaction.
 Exchange occurs in their local markets where goods and services are
exchanged for monetary purposes during the market days. The exchange
process creates room for social interaction.

Community interests and goals
 The common goal and interest of the community is increased loyalty of its
members.
 Loyalty is exercised across all age groups.
 Every member of the community should be respected .the set rules and
regulations to govern their interaction are followed to the line.
 To ensure that members remain loyal, elders have been appointed to impart
values in individuals especially through counselling during their rites of
passage.
 Promotion of every individual’s wellbeing is one of the most important interest
of these people.

Community barriers and
challenges The most experienced is the communication barrier.
 Communication is made ineffective due to emotional barriers, age barriers and
gender.
 Emotional barriers arise because of fear of harm or punishment after
communicating out any challenge or problem identified.
 Age barriers hinders effective communication where there is no
encouragement of free interaction across the line of the people of all ages. It is
very hard for the youth to address the old in this society hence making
communication challenging.

Barriers and challenges to health
 Communication barriers is the greatest challenge experienced in the
community by health practitioners.
 One includes a client who is suffering from sensory problems where he/she
cant hear or suffers from speech impairment.
 Another communication issue is presentation of a patient suffering from
dementia. these patients seem confused and can't express themselves
eloquently.
 Language barrier is another challenge to communication when the client only
understands their local language.
 Noise is experienced as another communication barrier to health.

The community social determinants of
health.
 Social determinants of health include money, power , resources and daily living
conditions that influence the wellbeing and health of a person or group of people.
The present conditions may promote or limit the health of the community.
 For example, tis community experiences poor housing that exposes them to
health hazards.
 Most people suffer poor health because they cannot adequately access social
determinants of health.
 They lack adequate resources to seek health .These includes transport and
communication resources. There are impassable roads and poor means of
communication. The nearby health services are inadequate , and when sick, they
mostly suffer adverse consequences.
 People here have little access to money and power due to poor education .

summary of community assessment
 There were identified various programs for the youth, women, children and the
elderly.
 These programs have been funded to ensure good health, wellbeing and
prosperity of the society.
 The sources of funding includes the government agencies and fundraising from
the service providers.
 Another source of funding include grants and donations from the well wishers.
 The ministry of health supports health programs through giving free medical
check ups, medications and community health training.