Community Assessment of Miami, Florida (Essay Sample)

COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
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INSTITUTION NAME
General Description of my community
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County. It is within USA continent along the Atlantic Ocean. It has been a city of great history and survival which has grown into an international city with a population of 380,000 people of ages which has been categorized into below 18 years, 18-64years, and lastly 64years and above. The city has got various water bodies comprising of rivers, lakes and the bigger Atlantic Ocean. It is located between Florida Everglades and Biscayne Bay which extends from Florida Bay north of Lake Okeechobee.
Location
Basically it leans towards the coastal region of the Atlantic Ocean and more of its parts border the ocean towards the east.
Transport system
The transport system here varies depending on where one is proceeding to; there are several airports, vehicle parking, trains and bicycle riding which assists people to move around within the big city.
Major employers.
Miami city major employers are the beach co-operation since a greater percentage is covered along the sea there are several economic activities such as tourism, fishing at the beach due to a number of lakes, rivers example Miami lakes, Kendale lakes and three lakes and the large ocean, which comprises of Dania beach and Miami beach there are offshore minerals and energy resources along the city, marine transport employs a great number of people here which does shipping along the ports, ship and boat building, coastal tourism and recreation, coastal real estate, research and development which deals with oceanographic and research institutes. Lastly there are coastal construction, restoration and maintenance and repair this includes doing activities as restoration of wetlands, the building of waste treatment and the dredging of harbor. All these form the larger part of employment along the coastal region of Miami city.
Social services resources for pregnant women.
The government requires that all births to be recorded and other vital statistics to be taken immediately births has taken place.
The government main objective using the National maternal and infant Health survey (NMIHS) on factors related to poor pregnancy outcomes includes low birth weight, stillbirth, Infant illness, and infant deaths. The information available for birth, fetal death, and infant death are being collected.
The NMIHS provides data on socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of mothers. Prenatal cares, pregnancy history, occupational background, health status of the mother and infant, and type of the sources of medical care received. Data from these studies may be used to evaluate factors affecting adverse outcome of pregnancy.
The study based on questionnaires administered to nationally representative samples of the mothers with live births, still births, and infant death during 1988 and to physicians, hopitals, and other medical care providers associated with those outcomes.
Home health agencies that provide maternal-child health services
National mortality follow back survey begun in 1960’s by the national centers for health statistics (NCHS) uses a sample of United States residents who die in a given year to supplement the death certificates with information from the next of kin or another persons familiar with the descent’s life history. This information helps in the study of etiology of disease, demographic trends in mortality, and other health issues. It features information on hospitals and institutional care; it draws analysis of socioeconomic differentials in mortality. It features expenditure for health care, sources of payments, and health insurance cover age of the decedents. The surveys also provide data on co-morbid conditions, disabilities, alcohol use and access to health care services.
As part of the transformation in the maternal –child health services .the following agencies play their roles. Health professionals, consumer advocates, hospitals, birth centers, and health systems leaders, purchases and quality experts.
The health professionals provides a great number of services which includes, coordination of maternity care, across time, settings and disciplines, clinical controversies(home births,vaginal births after cesarean(VBAC) ,vaginal breech and twin birth, elective induction, and cesarean section without indication),disparities in access and outcome of maternity care, working towards reporting maternity duality data, discovering and sharing resources for women and staying in touch with the transforming maternity care parternership.
Women shelters
Norwegians midwives campaign for free health services, in collaboration with save the children to make a healthcare for all pregnant women and newborn free they have enabled women to have free health services.
Engaging midwives to end female genital mutilation, UNFPA is mobilizing midwives in the prevention and care of female genital mutilation and has developed a toolkit to campaign to end the vice.
Indicator

Year

County

State

USA

Total Population

July 1,2013(v2013)

 2,617,176

2,617,176

316,128,839

% Male


 1,271,948

 1,271,948

 160,593,450

% Female

July 1,2013(v2013)

 1,345,228

 1,345,228

 155,535,389

% male + % female


100

100

100

% under age 18

July 1, 2013(V2013)

 544,373

 544,373

 73,658,019

% 18-64

July 1, 2013(V2013)

 573,162

 573,162

 197,896,654

% 65 and over

July 1, 2013(V2013)

 369,022

 369,022

 44,574,166

% < 18 + % 18-64 + % > 64


100

100

100

% White

July 1,2013 (V2013)(a)

 2,036,163

 2,036,163

245,632,108

% Black

July 1, 2013 (V2013)(a)

 497,263

 497,263

 41,729,007

% American Indian/Native Alaskan

April 1 ,2010 (a)

 5234

 5234

3,793,546

% Asian

April 1,2010 (a)

 44,492

44,492 

 1.6754,828

% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander

April1 ,2010

 z

 z

 z

Total Race %


100

100

100

Ethnicity


 

 

 

% Hispanic/Latino

April 1,2010 (b)

 1,716,867

 1,716,867

 54,058,031

% White non-Hispanic

April 1,2010

 397,811

 397,811

 197,896,653

 


 

 

 

Other Information


 

 

 

Persons per household

2009-2013

 3.02

 3.02

 8,314,188

Home ownership (owner occupied)


 1,457,767

 1,457,767

 205,167,616

Mean Home Value


 

 

 

% High School Graduates (over 25)

2009-2013

 2,062,335

 2,062,335

 271,870,801

% with Bachelor’s degree or higher

2009-2013

 688,317

 688,317

 91,045,106

Speak language other than English at home

2009-2013

 1,889,601

 1,889,601

 65,438,670

Median Family Income

2009-2013

 $1,800

 $1,800

 $53,046

% Families Below Poverty

2009-2013

 544,373

 544,373

 45,838,681

Total # births/year
Please include total number per year for the last 5 years to identify any trends (increase or decrease) in total births.

(2009-2013)

 
2008 -4,247,694
2009 -4,131,019
2010- 308,758,105
2013- 316,128,839

 2009-2013)
2008 -4,247,694
2009 -4,131,019
2010- 308,758,105
2013- 316,128,839

 2009-2013)
2008 -4,247,694
2009 -4,131,019
2010- 308,758,105
2013- 316,128,839

Source
U.S. Census Bureau State and County Quick Facts: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd
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