[Answered] NR443 Week 1 Discussion: Social Factors

COURSE

NR443: RN Community Health Nursing

Discussion Question

There are many factors that make people healthy or ill.  This week we will focus on the social factors and determinants that impact health.

It is time to get out into your community!

  • Go online to the U.S. Census Bureau at https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/ (Links to an external site.) (*note, you will be using this website in the Week 2 assignment, so you can get started on collecting all the required data if desired)
    • Input your local zip code, city, or county. Try to get as specific data as possible (city, township, county).
    • Next, identify the:
      • Total population
      • Median income
      • Percentage or number of persons living in poverty
  • Go to your local grocery store, use a flyer, or app. Include the stores name, city, and state. Identify cost for the following items (please note whether items are organic):
    • 1 gallon of milk
    • 1 loaf of bread
    • 1 bag of apples (include price per pound)
    • 1 bag of carrots
    • 1 large container of yogurt
    • 1 2-liter of soda
    • 1 bag of chips
    • 1 package of cookies
  • Utilizing the data collected, discuss social factors that might impact what groceries are purchased. Try to be as specific to your community as possible (location, availability, poverty levels, etc.).
  • Discuss how a community health nurse (CHN) could use one of the 17 intervention categories from the Public Health Intervention Wheel to address areas of food security (Nies & McEwen, 2019).
  • In your responses to classmates, include comparisons and contrasting information.

Your discussion post should look like:

  • Paragraph one: Utilizing the data collected, discuss a social factor that might impact what groceries are purchased. Try to be as specific to your community as possible (location, availability, poverty levels, etc.)
  • Paragraph two: Utilizing the data collected, discuss another social factor that might impact what groceries are purchased. Try to be as specific to your community as possible (location, availability, poverty levels, etc.)
  • Paragraph three: Discuss how a community health nurse (CHN) could use one of the 17 intervention categories from the Public Health Intervention Wheel to address areas of food security
  • Resources: Where did you find your data?

Solution

I live in Palm Beach, Florida, in a city known as Boca Raton. Our city has a total population of 99,805 of which 52.0% are females. Young people under eighteen years are the minority with 16.8% while old people over 65 years are relatively many with 26.8% of the total population. (U.S Census Bureau, 2019).

The median household income for the year 2015 to 2019 was $ 83,114 and per capita income for twelve months was found to be $61,128. This is a positive variance compared to that of the entire United States which stood at $ 62,843 and $ 34,103 respectively.  From this statistical data, the poverty level in Boca Raton is slightly lower at 9.1% compared to the 10.5% poverty level in the whole of the United States.

My local visits to Boca Raton stores such as Boca Raton Greenmarket

  • 1 gallon of milk @ $ 1.63
  • 1 loaf of bread @ $2.48

1 bag of apples (include price per pound) @ $1.31…………..please follow the link below to access the solution at $5