The document provides a scenario where the student represents a local non-profit community health organization in Chicago compiling data to conduct a needs assessment to determine the feasibility of a new community-based mobile health clinic. The targeted population faces socio-economic challenges including high unemployment, a shortage of physicians, and divisive attitudes about entitlement programs. The student is asked to review a community health needs assessment and write an executive summary addressing the key socio-economic factors affecting access to care, critical focus areas identified in the report, how a mobile clinic could address these areas, and potential barriers to the mobile clinic's success.

1. Competency
Analyze the impact of ethical principles applied to the
allocation of health resources.
Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
The scarcity of health resources continues to negatively affect
communities across the country. Deciding how to allocate
scarce resources creates significant ethical challenges for local
policymakers and other stakeholders within the community.
You represent a local non-profit community health organization
in Chicago. Your organization is compiling data to conduct a
needs assessment in order to determine the feasibility of a new
community-based mobile health clinic. You have been asked to
review the most recent strategic plan for the city of Chicago.
The mobile clinic would offer free preventive care, urgent care,
and chronic disease management services to vulnerable citizens
of Chicago, who may not otherwise have the financial resources
to access quality healthcare services. Your executive summary
will be used in the development of a needs assessment for the
project.
Your targeted population is an urban, low income community
disenfranchised by current health reform policies, high
unemployment, a shortage of primary care physicians, and

2. divisive partisan attitudes regarding entitlement programs. The
goal of the community-based clinic is to work collaboratively
with local health facilities to reduce costs, improve access, and
to enhance the quality of care for underserved communities.
Instructions
Review the community health needs assessment linked here that
was conducted by the Health Impact Collaborative of Cook
County:
POST-South-Report.pdf
Pages 37 – 49 of the report highlight challenges facing the city
with respect to costs, access, and quality of care issues. Write
an executive summary addressing the following questions:
What are some of socio-economic factors that affect access to
care based on the findings in the report?
What are the critical focus areas identified in the report?
Based on the report’s content, how might the use of a mobile
health clinic address the critical focus areas?
What are some of the potential barriers to success for a mobile
health clinic?
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CITYOFCHICAGO.ORG
A - 4 - Mastery
Identifies the socio-economic factors that affect access to care
based on the findings in the report with specific examples and
fully developed reasoning.
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Provides a thorough, detailed assessment of the critical focus
areas identified in the report.
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Synthesizes how the use of a mobile health clinic will address
the critical focus area with strong supporting evidence from the
report.
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Identifies and explains the potential barriers to success for a
mobile health clinic with specific examples and thorough and
detailed reasoning
A - 4 - Mastery
All elements of a properly structured executive summary are
present: Professional in tone