Problem
• Header: Key Concepts of Population Health: Describe and discuss the concepts of population, population health and healthcare disparities. Be sure to answer the following questions: What do these terms mean? How do they affect the community? How do they affect healthcare?
• Header: Background of Vulnerable Population: Discuss the background of your selected vulnerable population. Include items such as social and demographic characteristics of the population (age, sex, gender, race/ethnicity, and other relevant characteristics). Include at least 2 references for information.
A few examples of populations that could be used for this assignment: LGBTQIA, incarcerated men or women, elderly, those that live in rural communities/ farmers, homeless, HIV positive, low income children, chronically ill, disabled, PTSD, veterans, immigrant and migrant populations, low income neighborhoods, racial and ethnic minority populations, populations with limited English proficiency.
• Header: Negative Health Outcome: Discuss 1 negative health outcome that is disproportionately present in your vulnerable population. Compare the prevalence of this outcome in your vulnerable population and its prevalence in the general US population.
• Header: Social Determinants of Health Discuss the findings in the literature for one of the social determinants of health that is most closely associated with the occurrence of health disparities in this vulnerable population. Describe how the social determinant of health is related to the health outcome you discussed in the previous section.
• Header: Nursing Interventions: Discuss two interventions that could be implemented by the nursing profession to reduce health disparities in this vulnerable population. Describe the components of the proposed interventions and how it will affect the social determinant and vulnerable population chosen.