Unit 9 Assignment: Final Paper and PowerPoint PresentationInstructions:You will write a paper that will review your entire quality improvement project along with a PowerPoint presentation to summarize

Title

Cecilia Gates

Kaplan University

HS460 Project Design and Management

Kina Sweet

Dec 11, 2017

The process I want to improve is to reduce obesity in Indiana. The representative from the Indiana Health Department states that the most critical issues that are happening in the community is to reduce the prevalence of obesity in Indiana. The most vital problem the Health Department is addressing how to increase the number of individuals with a healthy weight. The definition of overweight and obesity is the amount of weight that is larger than the healthy weight for the height of an individual. Body Mass Index is used to measure if an individual is overweight or obesity (CDC, 2017).

HIV is rising in Indiana due to the rising usage of heroin and using dirty needles that are shared among drug users. The smaller counties in southern Indiana had an increasing number of HIV outbreaks that the CDC had to take over the intervention and treatment along with the Indiana State Health Department. The Governor of Indiana declared a state of emergency in 2015 because this has been the worst outbreak in history. The first diagnosis of HIV was in December, a month later five more individuals were diagnosed, by the third month the number had risen to 26 and by March 79 individuals were diagnosed with the HIV. All the outbreaks were in counties in southern Indiana. The county usually has less than five cases of HIV outbreaks in a year (Goldschmidt, 2015).

Addressing the HIV outbreak in Indiana, we need to focus on safe sex, needle disposal, clean needles, drug treatment and HIV testing. The community will be able to give out fresh needles at any time to individuals needing a needle and have free HIV testing in all counties throughout Indiana. The city will organize a team to run a campaign to prevent and educate individuals about HIV. For this plan to work, health clinics, doctors, nurses, counselors, and volunteers would have to help. Health clinics will be able to give free testing of HIV, also be able to educate individuals on HIV, pass out clean needles and condoms. Doctors and nurses are needed so that when a person is a diagnosis with a positive test that they can get the proper medication, test, and care required to survive with HIV. Counselors will be on staff to help individuals with HIV and family members deal with the shock of the person with HIV. Volunteers will be able to go in the community and pass out pamphlets on HIV and give out clean needles. The flow chart below explains the process of the campaign to prevent HIV (ETU, 2017).

Overall Approach

Condom distribution

Public Education

Targeting and message

Counseling &

Testing

Promote Openness

References:

Goldschmidt, Debra. 2015. Indiana governor declares public health emergency due to HIV epidemic. Retrieved from

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/27/health/indiana-HIV-outbreak/index.html

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2017. Retrieved from

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/index.html

Education and Training Unit. 2017. Retrieved from

http://www.etu.org.za/toolbox/docs/aids/prevention.html

Annotated Bibliography

Goldschmidt, Debra. 2015. Indiana governor declares public health emergency due to HIV epidemic. Retrieved from

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/27/health/indiana-HIV-outbreak/index.html

This article explained about the HIV epidemic in Indiana and very popular in the southern counties in Indiana. HIV is on the rise because of the sharing of needles and increase of heroin use. Indiana’s Governor Mike Pence in 2015 declared a state of emergency because Indiana had the worst outbreak of HIV in history.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2017. Retrieved from

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/index.html

HIV is a virus that spread through the body fluids that attack your immune system. Usually, the t cells that the disease can damage the cells that the body cannot fight the infection or the disease off. HIV name is Human immunodeficiency virus. HIV does not have a cure now but with medical care HIV can be controlled.

Education and Training Unit. 2017. Retrieved from

http://www.etu.org.za/toolbox/docs/aids/prevention.html

This source I was able to gather information to make the flow chart of the campaign to prevent HIV. Overall approach, target and message the group, public education, condom distribution, promoting openness, and counseling and testing.