Infant Mortality

An effective community health worker is an individual who is aware of current health trends occurring within their community. For your capstone project, you will select a topic from the following list and write a 5-7 page paper about how that topic affects the residents of the community you serve.

The paper should include:

Introduction

Brief history of the topic in your community

Populations most affected by the topic

Why this topic is important to discuss

Current resources available within the community to address the topic

Resources that are needed but not available

How Community Health Workers can improve outcomes

Conclusion