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Community Profiling: Week 2

The document outlines topics for community profiling, including demography, location, occupation, social structure, culture/languages/tradition, environment/housing/transportation, health, and lifestyle/daily life. Health topics cover food/water/nutrition, healthy family, common diseases, health problems, community health, and health services. Instructions are provided to identify and prioritize community problems using a provided scale to rate the size, seriousness, availability of interventions, and economic/social impact of each problem.

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Community Profiling: Week 2

The document outlines topics for community profiling, including demography, location, occupation, social structure, culture/languages/tradition, environment/housing/transportation, health, and lifestyle/daily life. Health topics cover food/water/nutrition, healthy family, common diseases, health problems, community health, and health services. Instructions are provided to identify and prioritize community problems using a provided scale to rate the size, seriousness, availability of interventions, and economic/social impact of each problem.

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WEEK 2- Community Profiling

1. Demography
2. Location
3. Occupation
a. Work and income
b. Daily saving
c. Improved agriculture
d. Home gardening
e. Cooperatives
f. Entrepreneurship

4. Social structure
5. Culture / Languages / Tradition
6. Environment / Housing / Transportation
7. Health
a. Food , water , nutrition
b. Healthy family
c. Common diseases
d. Health problems
e. Community health
f. Health services
8. Lifestyle and Daily Life
9. Education
= First Identify and Enumerate the problems of your Community

= Then Prioritization of the problems ( Please refer below )

=Take a picture with your community nurse or BHW you interviewed.

Prioritization of Problems in the Community

1. Size of the problem

1=relatively few people affected

2= moderate number affected in particular subgroups

3=moderate number affected across the entire population

4= large number affected in particular subgroups

5= large number affected across the entire population

2. Seriousness of the problem

1= not life threatening or disabling

2=not life threatening but sometimes disabling

3=moderately life threatening or disabling

4=moderately life threatening, with a strong likelihood of disability

5=high likelihood of death or disability

3. Availability of the current interventions

1= no evidence-based interventions or promising practices available

2= no evidenced based interventions available, but promising practices available

3=evidenced-based interventions but difficult to implement

4= evidenced-based interventions available and can be implemented with moderate effort

5= evidenced –based interventions available and can be implanted easily


4. Economic or social impact

1= economic or social cost are minimal

2= there is some potential increased costs

3= there is likely to be moderate costs

4=there is likely to be substantial costs

5=there are great economic and societal costs

Prioritizing Health Problems Worksheet


Determine criteria for each health problem.

Health Criteria 1 Criteria 2 Criteria 3 Criteria 4 Resulting


Problem Rating

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