West Coast University Fitness Centers Community Health Paper

For this assignment, identify an area of focus in community health within your own community.

Using Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns framework (p. 130 in your e-text), assess the health risks in your community. I CHOOSE (Activity-exercise pattern: Exercise, activity, leisure, and recreation)

In your community assessment paper, include the following:

Identify resources in your community that would enable you to complete a community assessment and submit a summary of your findings (1–2 paragraphs).

Refer to Table 8-3: Examples of Community Strengths and Concerns, and assess the strengths and concerns of your community (2–3 paragraphs). I CHOOSE (High interest of key leaders in health promotion Lack of interest)

Identify potential barriers to implementing community health plans in your community and brainstormways of addressing these barriers (2–3 paragraphs).

You must include 2–3 sources that are APA cited and referenced in your paper. (Sources may include community resources such as flyers, brochures, interviews, news stories, and local research data from credible sources.)