Zip code: 33619 Tampa Fl (Hillsborough County). Information should be found within the zip code but if for any instance there is an information that could not be found please use the county.
a. Community Data: Gather vital statistical data to assess the community’s health status and to identify vulnerable populations in the community.
b. Census Data: Gather Census Data to identify the population in your community and zip code. Identify three vulnerable populations & identify two potential health care needs for the identified vulnerable populations.
c. Environmental Risk Assessment: Collect data to assess environmental risks for your assigned community or zip code.
d. Community Member Interviews: Interview three community members (for example: police, fireman, school teacher, community member [no official title], mechanic, librarian, business owner or store clerk/manager) to determine their perspective on the health of the community.
e. Community Planning: Meet with a public health professional in the community and present assessment findings. Collaborate with the healthcare member to identify the top three priority needs for the assessed community or zip code area and outline a program plan to address one priority need for a target population.
For this first part highlighted in blue I just need a summary of what I will be doing on the paper (pretty much like an abstract)
Instructions and website are below:
Provide the following information:
• Air quality over the past month
• Find 1 or 2 well known waterways in the area and list the top contaminants
• List the name and pollutant contribution risk percentage of toxic air pollutants suspected of causing cancer in the area
• List any Superfund sites in your area (if any) and the primary pollutant: https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live (Links to an external site.)
Provide the implications of:
• Chemical exposure on health
• Lead exposure on health
• Poor Air quality on health
Summarize Findings.
Component: Environmental Risk Assessment
Directions: Go to https://www3.epa.gov/myem/envmap/find.html (Links to an external site.)
Enter zip code (Your Community zip code is 33619 Tampa Fl (Hillsborough County) to collect data to assess environmental risks.
Assessment
Toxic Chemicals:
• Top Polluter in County
• Top Chemical Released in County Lead Hazards
• Percent of houses with high risk of lead Air
• Top Polluter in County
Environmental Justice (Environmental Justice Mapper)
• Identify Unequal Distribution of Burdens by Race/Ethnicity
Paragraph about Implications of:
• Chemical exposure on health
• Lead exposure on health
• Poor Air quality on health
Unequal Distribution of Burden
Summarize findings: Environmental Risk Assessment