Assessment of Public Health in Kansas City: Issues, Interventions

This report provides an overview of the public health landscape in Kansas City, Missouri, highlighting the health issues and inequalities faced by the community. It discusses geographical and racial health disparities, including challenges in accessing quality healthcare, leading to higher infant mortality rates and avoidable hospitalizations. The report identifies major causes of death, such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's, and diabetes. Recommendations include improving health education, addressing discrimination in healthcare facilities, ensuring resource availability in underserved areas, and tackling economic barriers to healthcare access. The report also mentions existing programs like the Community Health Improvement Plan (KC-CHIP), Aim4Peace, and Communities Creating Opportunity (CCO) aimed at improving community health and quality of life. The conclusion emphasizes the need for collaborative efforts between the government and citizens to resolve healthcare challenges in Kansas City. Desklib offers similar solved assignments and study resources for students.

Running head: PUBLIC HEALTH OF KANSAS CITY
PUBLIC HEALTH OF KANSAS CITY
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Introduction:
Kansas City is the biggest city of the U.S. state of Missouri. Kansas City has its
individual public health facility known as the Kansas City Health Department (KCHD) which
has been working for almost 150 years aiming to protect the population of the city (Loring et
al., 2017). In this assignment, the public health condition, issues and various other aspects
witnessed by the community of Kansas City will be reflected.
Discussion:
As being a part of Kansas community, I have witnessed a lot of knowledge about the
public health issues that the community has been facing since the past 150 years. The city has
been facing various geographical and racial health inequalities. Kansas has been effected by
the health inequalities in accessing quality health care service. This issue has been leading to
high infant death rate, avoidable hospitalization, inferior birth rate of the Hispanics, Asians
and blacks (Bradley et al., 2015). As per my research, I observed that the citizens of Kansas
have been majorly effect by deaths from cancer and heart diseases. The other causes of the
death among them are stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes.
After my survey on the community’s health care facility and health issues, few
recommendations came in my account. If these strategies are followed, it can reduce the
death rate and will be helpful in improving the health condition of the Kansas City. In order
to improve the health condition of the in people, proper knowledge and educations are
required to provide to the individuals, as many cases of lacking proper health care is due to
lack of information about the facilities and knowledge about the disease or health issues. next
intervention should be taken by the government to take a step for removing discrimination
that are faced by the people of Kansas in the healthcare facilities (Bradley et al., 2015). There
are many areas I spotted in the city where the health resource dose not reach in a proper way,

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the people there lack the resource and it is causing a major issue for them. In order to
overcome this issue, the healthcare facilities should check on the resource availability in
every region and take proper actions to restore the problem (Bradley et al., 2015). Another
issue that I observed was the economic condition of the people of the city, which was keeping
them deprived from these health care facilities.
Apart from this, I researched and found that there are various programs and interventions that
are implemented to improve the health care and quality of the lives of the Kansas City:
 Community Health Improvement Plan (KC-CHIP) focused on safeguarding things
such as admission to care when sick, information on defensive care messages, and
considerate that health starts in one’s societies, not at the hospitals (Bafaro et al.,
2017).
 The Aim4Peace advantage aims to decrease the spread of ferocity using defensive
approach.
 Communities Creating Opportunity (CCO) is an organization that is working with
KCHD to advance the worth of life in societies through Kansas City. CCO centres
mostly on socioeconomic matters like admission to reasonable credit, destructive
advancing, and growing wages (Tuckson, Dzau, & Lurie, 2017).
Conclusion:
In order to conclude, I would like to state that, the Kansas City has been facing
various issues regarding the health care facility, and the reasons lies within the community
and it can be resolved by the government along with the citizens of the city.

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