Defining the Community Your community can be a pediatric, adolescence, young adults, adult, elderly or a combination. One must clearly delineate the following dimensions before starting the process of...

Defining the Community
Your community can be a pediatric, adolescence, young adults, adult, elderly or a combination.
One must clearly delineate the following dimensions before starting the process of community assessment:
• Describe the population that is being assessed?
            • What is/are the race(s) of this population within the community?
            • Are there boundaries of this group? If so, what are they?
                        • Does this community exist within a certain city or county?
                        • Are there general characteristics that separate this group from others?
                        • Education levels, birth/death rates, age of deaths, insured/uninsured?
• Where is this group located geographically…? Urban/rural?
• Why is a community assessment being performed? What purpose will it serve?
• How will information for the community assessment be collected