Community-Based Health Interventions in an Institutional Context by Steven L. Arxer & John W. Murphy

Author:Steven L. Arxer & John W. Murphy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030246549
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

As Sharon noted:reaching…some of the population that we need to in this market is tough. You know, you really have to be out into the communities and where the people are that you need to reach…Reaching that population with the messages that we need to and helping them through, we do a lot of nutrition education and we have cooking classes at the library, things like that. But really getting the message to the people that we need to is a challenge for us.

In many cases, difficulty in reaching and working with local populations was cast as a communication issue. As Stacy noted, “access is always a challenge because our patients have access issues and communication sometimes can be an issue.”

Jackie added:I would say that…the health needs are different. I mean, there’s a huge problem with smoking…and of course, where there’s a large proportion of smoking, you’ve got great incidence of lung cancer. In fact, lung cancer is the number one cause of death in those counties. So then what we have to do is we have to look at, you know, how can we motivate people to be tested, to do smoking cessation, how do we deal with some of the social determinants? You know, they don’t have transportation, they don’t have this, they don’t have that. So there’s a lot more extenuating resources that have to be provided if we really want to be successful.

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