Many factors influence health and well-being in a community, and many entities and individuals in the community have a role to play in responding to community health needs. The committee sees a requirement for a framework within which a community can take a comprehensive approach to maintaining and improving health: assessing its health needs, determining its resources and assets for promoting health, developing and implementing a strategy for action, and establishing where responsibility should lie for specific results. This chapter describes a community health improvement process that provides such a framework. Critical to this process are performance monitoring activities to ensure that appropriate steps are being taken by responsible parties and that those actions are having the intended impact on health in the community. The chapter also includes a discussion of the capacities needed to support performance monitoring and health improvement activities.

In developing a health improvement program, every community will have to consider its own particular circumstances, including factors such as health concerns, resources and capacities, social and political perspectives, and competing needs. The committee cannot prescribe what actions a community should take to address its health concerns or who should be responsible for what, but it does believe that communities need to address these issues and that a systematic approach to health improve-

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2 years ago

Wich technique is an example of healthy stress management?

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Some of the best stress management techniques available include meditation, journaling, PMR, guided imagery, and good old breathing exercises.

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2 years ago

In a hypothetical study, the investigator wants to look at the association between exposure to pesticides in the workplace and t

AleksandrR [38]

Answer:

Prospective cohort study

Explanation:

Prospective cohort study is a type of observational study in epidemiology, where the subjects of the study are followed and monitored by the researcher over time, so as to investigate their risk or susceptibility to the disease. This is unlike the retrospective study where the researcher refers back in time to archived data.

The experiment described above is a prospective cohort study because the researcher follows the participants (the workers) over a span of time (ten years). At the end, he tried to evaluate the association between the exposure to the pesticide and the disease.

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