NRS 428 Community Assessment and Representative Interview Analysis Presentation Objectives of the presentation 1.Describing the community and its limits, including its inhabitants, its geography, geopolitics, economy, educational level, ethnic makeup, and forms of social interactions, as well as its obstacles and problems, which may include any known socioeconomic determinants of health.

NRS 428 Community Assessment and Representative Interview Analysis Presentation Objectives of the presentation 1.Describing the community and its limits, including its inhabitants, its geography, geopolitics, economy, educational level, ethnic makeup, and forms of social interactions, as well as its obstacles and problems, which may include any known socioeconomic determinants of health.

Benchmark – Community Teaching Plan

Health promotion is a critical aspect of improving the quality of life through disease prevention activities in communities, especially prevention of infectious and lifestyle chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension as a result of obesity. Hygiene practices, especially hand hygiene, can help individuals and communities to deal with infectious diseases. The role of hygiene has well been amplified as the health care systems across the world dealt with the emergence and spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic (Persaud, 2019). The purpose of this community teaching plan proposal is to offer excellent guide in sensitizing people concerning hygiene and developing prevention strategies to control the spread of infections. The proposal focuses on hand hygiene as a means of reducing infections at the community level, especially as a measure against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. healthcare system has been one to be known as expensive and not made to care for the people compared to most countries. “The United States has one of the highest costs of healthcare in the world. In 2021, U.S. healthcare spending reached $4.3 trillion, which averages to about $12,900 per person” (Why are Americans paying more for healthcare?, para. 2).

The effect of health care costs alone has been known to delay care of people because people don’t want to seek help knowing they can’t afford it. If people are in debt due to medical finances already, then they can be denied care, this is a huge problem in our country.

“To this end, many states have expressed interest in reducing the rate of growth in health care spending. To do so, states, by definition, must change the behavior of health care providers and payers. This presents two core challenges. The first is to identify the components of spending that should change. For example, one strategy may be to lower, or constrain the growth of, health care prices. Another may be to reduce the utilization of low-value care. The second challenge is designing a system that encourages, or forces, those changes. States have a wide variety of legislative and regulatory tools at their disposal, such as sharing data analytics, regulating prices, or preventing mergers and consolidation, which often lead to an increase in prices” (2021, para. 6).

Lowering the cost of prescription drugs have been a main component to helping with costs especially for people who need insulin at home or the way they deliver the medications in the hospital settings can be so wasteful and up the cost of a hospital stay. This is something that has been addressed and continues to be addressed in the healthcare reform. 

What are your thoughts on the cost of US healthcare and certain prescription medications?

Topic: Hand Hygiene to Promote Health and Reduce Infections