1. Pharmacy in Public Health: Community Health Course, date, etc. info

2. Learning Outcomes Recognize the characteristics of community health Describe a framework for obtaining data on community health Describe the SOAPE framework Identify task roles that facilitate teamwork Identify management issues when working in a community group

3. Community Health Based on the belief that: A community can create surroundings that promote health and prevent disease Local residents, including health professionals, can engage in actions that will improve the health of all residents of the community

4. Characteristics of Community Health Focus on: – The health of the population – Health promotion and disease prevention – Creation of a healthy environment – The health of all residents – Using limited resources effectively to promote health Involves collaboration among residents

5. Community Assessment Wheel

6. SOAPE Framework: Individual vs. Community

7. Subjective Data Key informants – Anyone who is a stakeholder – Anyone with knowledge of the issue including health professionals and lay residents Opinion survey – Systematic collection of opinion data from interviews of community members – Number of interviews depends on resources and health topic being investigated

8. Example questions for opinion survey

9. Objective Data Observational data – Obtained from visual examination of the community – Provides contextual information Secondary data – Data already collected that provides information on the population or community subsystems

10. General Community Survey (Source revised “Learning about the community on foot,” which incorporates all aspects of the assessment wheel from Anderson ET, McFarlane JM, Community as Partner: Theory and Practice in Nursing, 5e. Phila., PA: J.B. Lippincott; 2008:172-4.)

11. Community Survey cont’d

13. Community Survey: Perceptions

14. Assessment Data analysis—interview data Ranking community health issues Data interpretation

15. Analyze Data

16. Priority Health Issue

17. Planning and Implementation Planning – Identify the resources required – Identify participant responsibilities Implementation – The activities required to accomplish the goal – Typically involves coordination and organization

18. Evaluation Process measures – What worked well and what didn’t – Brief questionnaire or discussion at the next meeting Outcome measures – Did the intervention accomplish its goal? – Collect data (number of people using service, number of brochures distributed, etc.)

19. Skill Working in Groups is Needed for Community Health

20. Collaboration in a Community Group Productive collaboration means working together to collect data, analyze the data, identify priority health issues, and agree on an intervention; group work is facilitated if: – Participants know what type of roles they need to fulfill as a member of a group – Procedures for conducting group meetings are established

21. Task Roles Required for Effective Collaboration

22. Task Roles, cont’d.

23. Management Phase I

24. Management Phase II

25. Management Phases III, IV, & V

26. Summary: Community Health Community health is focused on a population, health promotion and disease prevention, and on assuring that surroundings promote health The community is described as consisting of 8 subsystems plus the population SOAPE process can be used to guide the assessment process

27. Summary: Collaboration and Management Task roles—Knowledge of task roles are required for productive group work Group work in community health requires substantial process management to guide the group through the five phases