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Canton City A Community Assessment

This community assessment identifies knowledge deficits in Canton residents, particularly in cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. It also highlights the need for better sexual health resources to reduce teen pregnancies and STD prevalence. The report emphasizes the importance of education in improving health outcomes, especially considering the high drop-out rates in Canton. Interventions are proposed to address these issues and improve overall community health.

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Canton City A Community Assessment

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  1. Canton City A Community Assessment Kristy Clark, Michelle Dearduff, Rebecca Hopkins, Diana Mamula, Danielle McCutcheon, Gillian Pedersen, Sara Royer, Dawn Simon, Melissa Swan, Debbie Watson

  2. Nursing Diagnosis • Knowledge deficit among Canton City community residents related to lacking awareness of health effects as evidenced by incidence of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes; lack of resource utilization regarding sexual health as evidenced by high prevalence of teen pregnancy and STD prevalence; and ineffective emphasis on the importance of education as evidenced by a lower percentage of Canton high school graduates as compared to the county and state.

  3. Chronic Health • According to the Canton City Health Department website, there were 140 Canton residents who were newly diagnosed with diabetes in 2007. • Cardiovascular disease has been diagnosed in 982 people per 100,000 people in the city of Canton. • Ohio ranks 11th in the Nation in breast cancer deaths and 9th in total cancer deaths among women (C-SPAN, 2009).

  4. Sexual Health • Timken High School has a 13% pregnancy rate among its female student body, as compared to the national teen pregnancy rate of 8% (Garvey, 2005). • Lower reports of new cases may indicate effective health teaching • The need for improvement and continued attention in this area is necessary due to both the significant number of existing cases and number of at-risk teens.

  5. Education • Canton has an 80.3% graduation rate leaving the remainder to be the percentage of drop-outs at 19.7% (Carr, 2009). • The costs to the community for high drop-out rates include: incarceration, Medicaid, costs of charter schools, income loss to the city, and criminal justice system costs. • Ohio pays an estimated $2,728,031 to provide education to the students that drop out (www.wediducan.com).

  6. Interventions & Rationale

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