Community Needs Assessment
1.Location: (Miami Dade college)
Population: 40 student
Activity: Distribution of HIV information
Health Issue: HIV among Hispanics (lack of knowledge about the disease)
2. What are the demographics of the population in the community that you will be addressing this activity?(gender, race, ethnicity, age group, etc)?
The demographics of this community is diverse. For example, a gender of the population that is sick with HIV may be considered as male people in most cases. Their race is Latin American and there are a lot of Mexican,
Dominicans, Peruvians and Argentines among them. Age group of them varies from 20 to 25 years old. The ethnicity is Hispanics and most of this population are mulattoes and mestizos. That is why, l like to provide such
kind of study that would help to understand better a race origin and mentality of these people (Dawson, 2014).
3.Prevalence: What are the risk factors facing this population?
The risk factors that may face this population are blood pressure that is rather high, hypertension that means a high pressure of blood. Also, this ethnicity has a risk factor for the heart disease and a stroke. A problem of obesity is prevalent and diabetes grows a lot. Among all of it, there is an evidence that suggests that economic and social factors should be important health determinants. Despite a high rate of poverty and less of education, as well as health care worse access and health outcomes, a lot of Hispanics live in the United States of America for today in an equal manner or even better than the whites that are non-Hispanics (Koening, 2015).
4.Identify some of the major health problems that this particular community faces.
One of the major problem that this community faces is that Latinos made up seventeen percent of the population of the community in the USA being estimated and accounted for twenty-three diagnoses of the infection on HIV. Eighty-four of the infections with HIV were estimated to these people on male-to-male contact in sexual relationships and eight percent was attributed according to the sexual contact. There is three percent of
the HIV infections that were diagnosed among the males of Hispanic people being attributed to the use of drugs and male-to-male contact of sexual character. In that time, there was less than one percent of people who were
attributed to the other categories of transmission (Selik, 2013).
Also, on average, the socioeconomic status of the people of Hispanic population could be compared with the African Americans and be lower significantly than of the whited of non-Hispanic people. Such situation
could be reflected in the measures of the socioeconomic status that includes a family and personal income and a rate of poverty, as well as the occupation and educational attainment. In the years …
