As a healthcare administrative professional, you are highly engaged in promoting community health within your organization’s local community. With the important prevention topic of diet/excerise respond to the following questions:
Why should the community address this issue?
What are the issues that should be considered?
What resources are needed to make continuous improvement in prevention? How will it measure and motivate success?
What kinds of data will be needed to make decisions in a preventive program?
Should an HCO lead the prevention activity? What alliances should the HCO seek?
Next, relate your prevention topic and responses to the questions above to the Community Health Scorecard and how they support/relate to each scorecard dimension.