1. Examine health statistics and demographic data to identify the rates of poverty and homelessness in your geographical area (Oakland, California).. What resources and agencies are available in your area to support these populations? What services are available through the federal government, the state, and the local community? Identify specific geographical boundaries, and survey the area to identify community resources, soup kitchens, health centers, food banks, and clothing distribution centers. How do persons who need these services access them? Give specific examples.
2. Identify the roles of the nurse in the preparedness, response, and recovery stages of a disaster. What role(s) is the community or public health nurse best suited for, and why?
1. Oakland is a major West Coast in the United States of California. The Oakland is well associated with the agriculture as its core economical structure including the production of wheat, rice its major parts (Poortinga et al., 2012).
The Government Social Service defines the poverty as the people in the society who cannot participate and contribute to the activities of the most of the casual people take for granted. California is one of the major areas where most of the people suffer from poverty, or the people have to make difficult choices. For example, the people of the Oakland sometimes even underwent skipping of the meals for the payment of the books for child’s education. The vital causes for poverty in Oakland of California are such as:
The agencies that are available to support these populations are such as:
California Council of Social Service: This organization has published the response of the major works done to minimize the rate of the health issues and the poverty level in Oakland, of California. This agency is one of the deliberate workers in the field of social services. Therefore, produces a great impact on the poor populations and the people deliberately eager for the help from the government (Simon, 2014).
Child Poverty Action Group: The agency work for the poverty of the children in the needy families of the Oakland. They promote shelter, food, education and healthcare to the children in many parts of the world such as United States of America, New Zealand, etc.
The Asthma Foundation: The Asthma Foundation or the AAFA is the most oldest and leading asthma and allergy charity of America, specifically in the Oakland of California. This disease is one of the chronic and epidemic diseases in California. Therefore the Asthma Foundation worked efficiently to reduce the rate of this disease especially within the populations suffering from poverty (Roy et al., 2015).
There are other agencies too, which helps the populations of the Oakland and help them for the social betterment and make a move for the benefit of the people of California.
There are many ways to acquire the best service for the social benefits, such as:
Specific geographical boundaries are conducted with specific surveys to identify related factors such as: community resources- the survey includes the information of a nonprofit social service provided in the state. Some specific resource centers are CRC or the Community Resource Center of California which was established in the year of 1979; soup kitchens- these are unaffordable for the poor people of the state; health centers- these do help the unhealthy poor population of the state with right treatment, and proper medications, food banks- Food banks are affordable range of the maximum people, but though the people suffering from poverty, must be supplied with adequate amount of foods by the state; and clothing distribution centers- these are conducted by the different agencies therefore, majority of the people do not suffer from the lack of clothing in Oakland (Haveman, 2015).
2. There are several factors which require the role of the nurses to be conducted in a highlighting way. The factors are such as: the preparedness, response, and recovery stages of a disaster.
The nurses are best suited for community health. This is because they have the basic concept in including the promotion of the health problems, medical treatment, rehabilitation, evaluation of community help, etc. (Elias, 2013).
References:
Elias, R.R., 2013. Grocery Stores: Neighborhood Retail or Urban Panacea? Exploring the Intersections of Federal Policy, Community Health, and Revitalization in Bayview Hunters Point and West Oakland, California(Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley).
Findley, S., Matos, S., Hicks, A., Chang, J. and Reich, D., 2014. Community health worker integration into the health care team accomplishes the triple aim in a patient-centered medical home: a Bronx tale. The Journal of ambulatory care management, 37(1), pp.82-91.
Haveman, R.H., 2015. Understanding Poverty. Sheldon H. Danziger and.
Kemppainen, V., Tossavainen, K. and Turunen, H., 2013. Nurses’ roles in health promotion practice: an integrative review. Health Promotion International, 28(4), pp.490-501.
Lowe, G., Plummer, V., O’Brien, A.P. and Boyd, L., 2012. Time to clarify–the value of advanced practice nursing roles in health care. Journal of advanced nursing, 68(3), pp.677-685.
McClintock, N., Wooten, H. and Brown, A., 2012. Toward a Food Policy” First Step” in Oakland, California: A Food Policy Council’s Efforts To Promote Urban Agriculture Zoning. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems & Community Development, 2(4).
Poortinga, W., 2012. Community resilience and health: The role of bonding, bridging, and linking aspects of social capital. Health & place, 18(2), pp.286-295.
Razani, N., Meade, K., Schudel, C., Johnson, C. and Long, D., 2015. Healing through nature: a park-based health intervention for young people in Oakland, California. Children Youth and Environments, 25(1), pp.147-159.
Roy, A., Schrader, S. and Crane, E.S., 2015. “The Anti-Poverty Hoax”: Development, pacification, and the making of community in the global 1960s. Cities, 44, pp.139-145.
Simon, G.L., 2014. Vulnerability-in-production: a spatial history of nature, affluence, and fire in Oakland, California. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(6), pp.1199-1221.
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