Read the following attached articles:

A Profile in Population Health Management: The Sandra Eskenazi Center for Brain Care Innovation: This Care Model Emphasizes Social, Behavioral, and Environmental Determinants of Health When Treating Dementia

Accounting for Accountable Care: Value-Based Population Health Management

How Executives’ Expectations and Experiences Shape Population Health Management Strategies

Watch the following video:

What Is Population Health? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtBYryLAveE)

After the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, health care organizations have been faced with significant challenges in providing quality care to all Americans. HealthyPeople.gov  (https://health.gov/healthypeople) also encourages health care organizations to focus on the relevance of social determinants and health status.

Take on the role of the administrator of a community hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. You would like to implement a strategic plan to improve the health status of your community. Select a vulnerable population in Atlanta, Georgia affected by a disease or condition. Examples include aging, COVID-19, diabetes, Ebola, heart disease, opioid epidemics, Zikavirus, etc. In three to five pages, detail your strategic plan to address the following:

• Describe the population, including demographics and risk factors that determine health in this population.
• Explain the disease or condition prevalent in this population.
• Identify access and barriers to health care and treatment options for this population, including local, state, and federal policies regulating the control and prevention of your selected disease or condition in this population.
• Propose at least three strategies to improve the health of the selected population.
• Develop at least three key indicators to measure the success of your proposed population health management.
• Support your response with a minimum of three scholarly sources published in the last 5 years formatted according to APA Style.

• A description of your target organization
• An existing policy or program in that organization;
• Background about the current state of your policy/program; what are its accomplishments, challenges, where it fits within broader city operations and how favorably it is viewed by senior leadership;
• An overview of your proposed solution;
• A list of resources you have already carefully reviewed including city docs, relevant docs from other cities, relevant docs that provide a conceptual foundation
• Resources and docs you plan to use going forward including interview subjects, primary and secondary sources.
• You should think through questions such as:
  • Who needs to buy into this plan?’,
  • How do I structure this as a pitch for those people?’,
  • What does success for various stakeholders look like?;
  • How will this make lives easier or their work more impactful?

Body language is a form of nonverbal communication that accompanies speech. Common forms of body language are eye contact, posture, facial expression, and fine and gross movement. Social workers must understand how these seemingly simple, sometimes unconscious, body language responses may have a lasting effect by encouraging or discouraging a client. Body language with a negative connotation can create barriers and dissuade a client from establishing and developing the helping relationship. In contrast, when the social worker’s body language conveys interest and empathy, the client is more likely to feel comfortable and receptive to assistance.

Because nonverbal communication can hinder a successful client relationship, social workers need to understand the way in which they present themselves. This extends to what is presented via the environment, as well—social workers must also consider the interview room’s layout and the tone it conveys.

In this Discussion, you explore body language and the helping relationship by assessing a social work scenario.

watch the video Southside Community Services: Mrs. Bargas, Episode 2.

• Identify one to two points you would change in each of the following aspects of the video scenario:
  • Seating arrangements of the social worker and client
  • Room design and decor
  • Body positions of the social worker and client
• Explain why you would make these changes and how these changes might improve the interviewing process.
• Describe the overall energy in the room and how the office design and social worker’s body language help to create this type of energy.

Cummins, L., K., & Sevel, J., A. (2017). Social work skills for beginning direct practice: Text, workbook, and interactive web based case studies (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

• Chapter 5, “Basic Skills for Direct Practice” (pp. 87-96)Cummins, L., K., & Sevel, J., A. (2017). Social work skills for beginning direct practice: Text, workbook, and interactive web based case studies (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2016). Southside Community Services: Mrs. Bargas, episode 2 [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Should social workers focus on changing the individual or the environment? Often, social problems require intervention at all levels (micro, mezzo, and macro). At the micro and mezzo levels, social workers engage with individuals and small groups to target individual change. At the macro level, social workers target broader social forces impacting a group experience. For example, a social worker could address sexual assault by providing individual case management or facilitating a support group for survivors. A social worker could also address sexual assault at the community level by raising awareness of consent or advocating for policy change to increase survivors’ access to support and justice.

In this Discussion, consider a client population you might like to work with during your field placement and how you might engage this population at the micro/mezzo and macro levels.

• A description of a client population with whom you might work while completing your field placement.
• An explanation of the problems this population might experience.
• Two ways a social worker could address these problems at the micro/mezzo level.

Segal, E. A., Gerdes, K. E., & Steiner, S. (2019). An introduction to the profession of social work: Becoming a change agent (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

• Chapter 6, “Generalist Social Work Practice”