Community Assessment La Romana, Dominican Republic

1. Community Assessment:
La Romana, Dominican Republic
Nur321 – Community Health Nursing
Kristen Vital and Michael Hardy

3. Demographics
 Population: 10,349,741 (July 2014)
 90.1% of total pop. over age 15 literate
 Ethic Groups: black (11%), white (16%), mixed
(73%)
 Over 4-million laborers
 1.) agriculture - sugarcane
 2.) industry - tourism
 3.) services
 About 34% below poverty line

4. Vulnerable Population
 Pregnant women
 Infants and children
 Elderly
 Batey workers

5. Health Characteristics/Problems
Morbidity Mortality
 Cardiovascular disease
 STIs/HIV/AIDs
 Tuberculosis (TB)
 Cholera
 Malaria
 Cardiovascular disease
(39%)
 External causes (20%)
 Cancer (16%)
 Infectious diseases
(8%)
 Transport accidents
(5%)

7. Transportation &
Industry

10. La Romana, The Bateyes

11. Batey Piñita

12. Batey Hugera

13. Batey Romanita & Ochenta

14. Proposed Interventions
 Water Filtration Program
 Hand/food hygiene

15. SMART Goals
 Specific
 Water filtration system
 Measurable
 Reduction of incidents in
waterborne illnesses
 Attainable
 Ongoing assessments
through health promoter
and nursing mission trips
 Realistic
 Cost effective/Self
sustaining
 Time Defined
 Within three months
 Continued maintenance

17. Health Interventions

19. References
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Dominican Republic. Retrieved from
https://www.cia.gov/ library/publications/the-world-
factbook/geos/dr.html
 Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (2013). CDC
in Dominican Republic. Retrieved
fromhttp://www.cdc.gov/
globalhealth/countries/dr/pdf/dominican_republic.pdf
 Healthy People 2020 - Environmental Health. (2015).
Retrieved from
http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-
objectives/topic/environmental-health/objectives
 Unicef. (2013). At a glance: Dominican Republic.
Retrieved from
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/
domrepublic_statistics.html
 World Health Organization. (2014). Dominican Republic.