Community Health Assessment Paper

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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Geauga County and determine three major health problems within the community. The assessment will compose of; general description of community, Demographic information, epidemiological data, and community health problems. Additionally, in this assessment and evaluation of Chardon, Ohio there will be identification of three community health problems and a community health diagnosis. The community health diagnosis will include three community objectives that could improve the community.
General Description Geauga County was originally founded in March of 1806. The county has rich ties to European heritage and was developed by three families who started settlement in Burton, Ohio in 1798 (Citation).
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Females make up 55.1 percent of the population in the city with only 44.9 percent of the citizens being male (CITATION CITY). The average household income is $51,363 which is an increase from $46,074 in 2000 (city citation). Chardon has a White population of 93.2 percent or 4,809 people, a Hispanic population of two and a half percent or 129 people and a Black population of one percent or 13 people (City citation). The educational back ground of Chardon is diverse. Citizens with a high school equalivant is estimated at 25.5 percent, citizen with some college education is 28. 9 percent and there 38.9 percent of citzens with a college degree ranging from an Associates degree to a Doctoratal degree (city citation). The unemployment for Chardon, Ohio is 4.3 percent (city …show more content…
The four most common causes of death in Geauga county are heart disese, neurologic, cancer and infection (citation PDF). Heart disease (cardiovascluar) claimed the lives of 208 people, Neurolgoical claimed the life of 190 people with 120 related to dementia and 42 due to stroke (citation pdf). Overall, Cancer claimed 136 lives, 34 of which were lung cancer, 19 breast cancer and the remainder being other types of cancer (Citation PDF). The fourth leading cause of death was infection which had 75 deaths, 53 of which were related to Pneumonia and 22 related to Sepsis (citation pdf). Infant mortality in Geauga County is relatively higher when compare to the United States. The white infant mortality is 6 per 100,000 per live births and the black infant mortality is 13.8 per 100,000 live births (second Geauga county citation). Geauga County did not collect information on Hispanic infant mortality (Personal communication Beck, Kelly {Geauga County Health Clerk}, September 30,

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