Journal Assignment,
Description
Reflection is essential for professional development and life-long learning. In past weeks, you have covered cost and quality with direct links to policy components. For this Journal Assignment, you will continue that reflection to include policy and unintended consequences.
To prepare:
- Consider the resources, concepts, and Assignments that have been introduced and completed throughout this course.
Reflecting on Weeks 59, respond to the following prompts (350 to 500 words):
- Knowledge Assessment
- What knowledge have you gained, or what existing knowledge have you strengthened regarding population health? Explain.
- Insights
- Share any insights you have regarding your personal healthcare experiences and their relationship to population health.
- Questions
- What questions or challenges do you have regarding any concepts/topics covered up to this point?
- Social Change
- How does your understanding of the course topics contribute to the promotion of positive social change?
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Journal Reflection
Tamillia Cherry
Walden University
Reflection
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Knowledge assessment
The course has helped understand population health as an interdisciplinary and
customizable approach that allows for departments and entities to collaborate in connecting
practice to policy to evoke desired change. I have learned about the non-traditional
partnerships including industrial, academia, health care, public health, government and
community which are vital for the attainments of positive health outcomes in population
health. Notably, I can differentiate between population health and public health, concepts
which I previously used interchangeably. Public health is directed to promote, improve and
protect community health through policy actions, education and research for prevention and
disease detection. On the other hand, population health is an opportunity for interdisciplinaryagencies, care systems, and organizations, to collaborate to improve community health
outcomes.
Insights
Two useful insight from the course on the relationship between personal and population
health are: 1) Personal health is boosted in the case of favorable population health hence a
causative relationship. 2) Personal health is compromised if population health is unfavorable
hence a preventive relationship. Population health shapes personal health, for example, if a
community experiences Ebola outbreak personal health is at risk. However, if vaccinations
are administered personal health is boosted.
A personal experience of the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention actions was a
healthy lifestyle campaign project in my community. The project commenced with public
education on healthy life habits including regular exercise and healthy diets (primary
prevention). It also provided screening tests and regular exams to the resident to help detect
conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity at their early stages for treatment
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(secondary prevention). Lastly, the project instituted rehabilitations programs for cardiac and
stroke conditions, management programs for chronic disease like diabetes and support groups
for patients to offer ongoing treatment for the ailing (tertiary prevention).
Questions
A question I would like to explore is: What is the current healthcare utilization in my
community? I want to know how often people seek care services, is the ambulatory care
timely? Or are there unnecessary urgent care calls. Exploring the issues will help predict
utilization and the potential value of healthcare services.
Social change
Understanding the topic has helped me link personal health to population health.
Personal safe habits are not enough as unfavorable health conditions in the community could
still affect an individual. The enlightenment has pushed me to contribute to community health
education activities. I will talk to immediate family, friends, and neighbors about healthy
habits like washing hand after using the toilet to prevent food contamination both at home
and in eateries. Adoption of such practices will reduce the outbreaks of communicable
diseases like cholera.
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