This document summarizes 6 articles related to community partnerships. The articles discuss topics like involving parents in students' academic success, preventing chronic diseases through community efforts, partnering with families and communities to enhance education, increasing community sports participation, engaging citizens with local government, and managing non-communicable diseases through community partnerships. The document analyzes each article's title, author, purpose, addressed population, and results to highlight how community partnerships can help address various health and social issues.

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Researching Community Partnership
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Researching Community Partnership
Jimmy Grimmage
Grantham University
1. The name of the article is “Home-School-community
Partnerships”
http://www.eduplace.com/science/profdev/articles/madison.html

2. . It’s written by Linda Madison. The purpose of the article is to
mobilize the parents about the importance of participating to
their children academic success. The majority of the student
registers poor performance because their parents are least
concerned and don’t spend the time to identify their strong or
weak area. If parents are involved, the problem of the students’
poor performance can be solved quickly. The population
addressed by the articles is teachers, parents and school
students. This article had good results; a good number of the
parents responded to the call, and students performance in most
school have improved.
2. The title of the next article is “Transforming Public Health
through Community Partnerships”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1459461/ . It
was written by Neil E. Hann. The purpose of the article is to
help the community devise various ways in which they can be
able to prevent and overcome the chronic diseases. There have
been numerous challenges associated with the chronic diseases
including death. Old members are the one who are mostly
affected. The article addresses all the members of the society
because this illness has been a threat to everyone in the society.
From the statistic, it’s apparent that people health has been
reduced, and the threats which were posed by this disease has
minimized.
3. The name of the next article is “Educational Leadership”
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-
leadership/may04/vol61/num08/Partnering-with-Families-and-
Communities.aspx . It was written by Joyce L. Epstein. Its
essences are to partner with the families and communities to
enhance professional learning. They emphasize on teamwork
among all the members of staffs in a school so that they can be
able to provide the students with quality education. The
problem associated is the students’ inability to handle the life
challenges due to the poor quality of teaching that they receive
in school. The population which is targeted by this article is
the teachers, students, and the parents. After the problem was

3. solved the students have shown some signs of aggressiveness as
they face the life challenges.
4. “Community Sports Hub”
http://www.pkc.gov.uk/article/3618/Community-Sports-Hub---
Eastern-Perthshire. The article wrote by Perth Kinross Council.
Its primary aim was to mobilize the community to increase their
participation is sports activities. It's was meant to provide a
platform for many people, especially the young generation to
intensify their exercise on various sports activities so that they
can excel in them. There was a problem with many people who
were not willing to participate in places. The articles targeted
young people who have talents but have not been provided with
the best platform to practice them. It had very positive results;
more young people are seen in the field engaging in different
sports activities during their leisure time.
5. The next articles are entitled the “Connected Communities”
http://icma.org/en/icma/knowledge_network/documents/kn/docu
ment/301763/connected_communities_local_governments_as_a_
partner_in_citizen_engagement_and_community_building . It
was written by the Alliance for Innovation group. The purpose
of the report was to identify the steps that the local government
can take so that they can achieve a higher level of the citizen
engagement through strengthening its connection with the
community. There has been a problem where the citizens have
not been able to engage with the local government, therefore,
most of the challenges that the government needs to address she
is not aware of it. The article discusses the all the citizens who
are served by the local government. The article has had good
results, the majority of the citizens can now be able to access
the govern services.
6. “The Lancet Global Heath”
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-
109X%2815%2900142-4/abstract . Is an article which was
written by Hector G Balcazar whose aim was to partner with the
local community in the bid to manage the non-communicable
diseases that have been a real challenge to various people,

4. especially children. Most children under the age of five have
suffered out of this illness, and some have lost their lives. The
population addressed is young children and the old people who
are prone to infection from this disease due to low immunity.
The results of the article have been very active due to improved
health and Medicare in most societies.
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5. HA535
This is not an essay. Just answer each question in 400 or more
words just apa format and references
1. Think of your local community. What health-related issue
currently affects a large number of people within your
community? How could research help address this issue? How
would you go about articulating a plan to obtain more data on
the health-related issue you identified?
2. In your opinion, what is the best method to obtain data on a
health-related topic? Would you call your local health
department, contact your physician, or email the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention? Perhaps you would do none of
these. Where would you go to obtain data? You will discuss
how you can retrieve data on a health-related topic of your
choice!
3. Choose a topic that is appropriate for your future career.
Select a scholarly article from the search results that interests
you. After briefly reading the article, identify the Problem,
Patient/Population, Action, Alternative Action, Result, and
Evidence (PPAARE) of the research.
6. Using the Kaplan University Library, locate one of the
following articles listed below* and answer the following
questions:
1. What is the quantitative problem statement?
2. What is the quantitative purpose statement?
3. What are the quantitative research questions and hypotheses?
4. How was the data collected?
5. How was the data analyzed?
6. What was the benefit of using the selected statistical test?
7. What was the outcome of the study?
Ward, R. M., Popson, H. C. & DiPaolo D. G. (2010). Defining
the Alpha Female: A Female Leadership Measure. Journal of

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Nowicka, P. Lanke, J., Pietrobelli, A., Apitzsch, E., &
Flodmark, C. (2009). Sports camp with six months of support
from a local sports club as a treatment for childhood
obesity. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 37(8), 793–800.
Philips, N., Sioen, I., Michels, N., Sleddens, E., & De Henauw,
S. (2014). The influence of parenting style on health related
behavior of children: Findings from the ChiBS
study. International Journal Of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical
Activity, 11(1), 1–23. doi:10.1186/s12966-014-0095-y
Celik, S. (2013). A media comparison study on first aid
instruction. Health Education Journal, 72(1), 95–101.
7. Using the Kaplan University Library, locate one of the
following articles below* and answer the following questions:
1. What is the quantitative problem statement?
2. What is the quantitative purpose statement?
3. What are the quantitative research questions and hypotheses?
4. How was the data collected?
5. How was the data analyzed?
6. What was the benefit of using the selected statistical test?
7. What was the outcome of the study?
Haws, K. L., & Winterich, K. (2013). When value trumps health
in a supersized world. Journal Of Marketing, 77(3), 48–64.
Santry, H. P., Collins, C. E., Wiseman, J. T., Psoinos, C. M.,
Flahive, J. M., & Kiefe, C. I. (2014). Rates of insurance for
injured patients before and after health care reform in
Massachusetts: A possible case of double jeopardy. American
Journal Of Public Health, 104(6), 1066–1072.
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301711
Cegielski, J., Griffith, D. E., McGaha, P. K., Wolfgang, M.,
Robinson, C. B., Clark, P. A., & ... Wallace, C. (2014).
Eliminating tuberculosis one neighborhood at a time. American

7. Journal Of Public Health, 104(S2), S225–S233.
doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.300781
Wyshak, G. (2014). Height, socioeconomic and subjective well-
being factors among U.S. women, ages 49–79. Plos ONE, 9(6),
1–17. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0096061
9.Using the Web Resources provided this week*, identify a
current epidemiological concern either at the local, national, or
global level. Address the following questions:
What is the epidemiological concern?
What population is it affecting?
What potential population may be affected if this concern is not
addressed?
What are the risk factors associated with the epidemiological
concern?
What public health recommendation can you make to alleviate
your identified epidemiological concern?
*Web Resources:
http://www.who.int/topics/epidemiology/en/
http://www.healthypeople.gov
http://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/organization/workgroups-
interest-groups-consortia/community-epidemiology-work-group-
cewg
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/about/epidemiology.html