Produce a community profile and health needs assessment including an action plan, confined to within 2,000-2,500 words

Produce a community profile and health needs assessment including an action plan, confined to within 2,000-2,500 words. For the course paper students will use a defined community of your choosing.

• Introduction
• Section 1: An overview of locality

1.1 Geographical

1.2 Background

1.3 History

• Section 2: Demographics

2.1 An overview

2.2 Gender

2.3 Age

2.4 a) Ethnicity

2.4 b) Religion

2.5 Housing

2.6 Employment

• Section 3: Services in locality

3.1 Transport

3.2 Accommodation

3.3 Social Clubs

• Section 4: Health Needs Assessment

4.1 Hospital Admissions

4.2 Coronary heart disease  (CHD)

4.3 Management of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)

4.5 Current Interventions

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Action plan

References:

7 figures

20- 24 references

Action plan

Appendix 1 - Action Plan Action: Aim: Intervention: Education about smoking and relevant risks which come with this for school pupils. The aim is to reduce the numbers of young people taking up smoking through educating them on the risks of smoking. The health risks which come with smoking including COPD and CVD should be part of the curriculum within schools in West Lothian, especially the school who are not signed up to the #notafavour campaign (ASH Scotland, n.d). This knowledge would fit in with learning about diseases within the biology curricular, and thus, it would fit into the teachings of biology. It could also be taught in personal and social education (PSE) as this class teach pupils how to provide themselves with a positive wellbeing. This will ensure that every child within West Lothian receives the same education about smoking. This in-depth education should hopefully ensure the numbers of young people taking up smoking is greatly reduced. Promotion of smoking cessation for parents. The aim is to reduce the numbers of young people from starting to smoke by removing the influence from their parents. Parents are role models for their children and therefore can influence their children’s lives. Therefore, if a parent is a smoker, their children is more susceptible to start smoking due to this influence (Wilkinson et al, 2008). To remove this influence, healthcare professionals should target these parents and provide them cessation techniques, including the cessation support groups part of smokefreeLothian (NHS Lothian, 2014). However, individuals need to be in the right mind frame to successfully quit. Therefore, GP and nurses should provide these individuals with information about the risks to their health and their children’s including second hand smoking. This information will hopefully be persuasive enough to ensure these parents successfully quit. Better accessibility to cessation support groups. The aim is to reduce the current number of smokers in Broxburn and therefore, improve the town’s successful quitting statistics. There is only one cessation support group within West Lothian, which is 8 miles away from Broxburn, making this group non-accessible for everyone. Therefore, the residents of Broxburn wishing to stop smoking will find a more accessible group beneficial. Within the Strathbrock Partnership Centre in Broxburn there are many rooms that are available to rent out for group sessions. As this building is in an accessible location for all residents of Broxburn, this would be an ideal location to run a cessation support group. This group does not need to be run by cessation specialists, nurses or doctors, instead it could be run by volunteers who have successfully given up smoking. This means that individuals wishing to stop can be given advice from someone who can gone through the situation before. Therefore, as they have first-hand experience they can provide those trying to quit with strategies to use that were beneficial to them. This may be more helpful for someone wishing to stop, rather than having healthcare professionals telling what they should be doing