Functional Health Patterns Community Assessment: Long Island Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive community health assessment of Long Island, focusing on functional health patterns. It examines the island's demographics, including its population size, predominant religious and ethnic cultures, and geographical aspects. The assessment delves into the financial aspects, education levels, and social determinants of health, such as education, age, socio-economic status, and culture. It identifies challenges like easy lifestyles, high socio-economic status, and cultural beliefs that contribute to health issues like obesity. The report highlights the role of public health providers in observing, evaluating, and improving community health through health promotion campaigns and empowerment programs. It recommends educating the community about obesity prevention, proper diet, and physical exercise. The conclusion emphasizes the need for empowerment campaigns to address the challenges and improve the overall health of the Long Island community. References from various sources are included to support the findings.

FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERNS
COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT

Introduction
Public health is the factor
that analyses the condition
of health of communities.
The analysis includes the
factors of habits, diet, socio-
economic condition, culture,
beliefs and others.

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Based on the analysis the
health promotion or other
counter measures would
be taken for prevention of
chronic diseases.
The process of the
prevention of disease
needed to be assessed by
the health care providers.

Long Island Community
It is an Island located
East of the Manhattan
Island in Atlantic ocean.
Area approximately
1,40o square meter.
Population size
approximately 7.5 million
(Usgs.gov, 2019).

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Predominant religious
culture is Catholic culture
as 40% people are
Catholic (Tyrrell, 2019).
Hispanic or Latin ethnicity
20.5% of population
20.4% of population is
from African American
race (Eidler, 2018).

Geography
Long Island is surrounded by water.
However, It is considered as United
States land as New York’s
boundaries contain Long Island’s
offshore.
Western most part of the Island
consists of Kings county and
Queens county.
Central and Eastern portion
contains Nassau and Suffolk county.

Financial Aspect
Long Island consists of largest industrial park that is
Hauppauge Industrial Park.
It consists of approximately 1300 companies and
approximately 70,000 people are employed in these
companies.
20% of people of the community employed in Manhattan
area.
Income of the community people can be stated as medium to
high as more than 20% people’s income is in the range of
$100,000-$149,000 and above 16% people’s income is more
than $200,000 (Osc.state.ny.us, 2019).

Education Level
Source: (Point2homes.com, 2019)

Ethnicity

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Catholic 40%.
Jewish 16%.
Protestant 7%.
Hispanic and Latin 20.5%
Asian 6% (Tyrrell, 2019).

Challenges
Easy and sedentary lifestyle.
High socio-economic status.
Low level of knowledge about obesity.
Cultural beliefs.

Social Determinants of Health
Education.
Age.
Socio-economy.
Environmental resources.
Culture.

Role of Public Health Provider
The health provider’s responsible for public
health providence and conveying the health
accessibility of the Island to the people.
Observation and evaluation of the lifestyle,
habit and health condition of people of the
community.

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Based on the observation taking action for
the improvement of the public health facilities
for the community.
Health promotion campaign, fund raising,
empowerment program planning in the
community.

Health Promotion
Educating community people about the effects
of obesity.
Prevention processes of obesity.
Proper diet and physical exercise training.
Impacting over the mindset of people and
changing the cultural beliefs (Hales, Fryar,
Carroll, Freedman & Ogden, 2018).

Conclusion
Based on above discussion it can be concluded that
the Long Island is an overpopulated Island.
Consisting of high socio-economic people.
 The easy lifestyle, cultural beliefs and lesser amount
of knowledge about obesity are the challenges.
It is recommended by the health provider to develop
an empowerment campaign which would provide
adequate knowledge about obesity.

References
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