Community Health Organizations
This assignment supports the following unit learning outcome:
Public health professionals must understand how data translates to action. Community organizations play an important role in reducing health disparities and serving vulnerable populations through a variety of methods.
- Using census data and other research methods, identify a health disparity or vulnerable population in your community. Summarize the data, including appropriate in-text citations.
- Identify an organization that supports the population you identified in your community. Services offered should include health care, but may also include financial counseling, social support, etc. A few examples of these organizations are: community health clinics, infant crisis centers, YWCAs, etc.
- Research and summarize the organizations’ mission, target population, and why that area of focus is relevant to public health.
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