WGU C228 Task 1 Community Health and Population (GRADED A)

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C228 Task 1B. Needs-assessment SummarySentinel City is the fictitious computer-generated environment which was assessed forthe purposes of this paper.Demographics Assessment:Sentinel City is a large m... etropolitan area that consists of four neighborhoods,Nightingale Square, Acer Tech Center, Casper Park District and Industrial Heights. The totalpopulation of the city is 663, 862 people, most of which are between the ages of 18-65,followed by children under 18 and finally persons over 65 years of age. The city is primarilyCaucasian with 80.6% of people identifying as such. The remaining 19.4 % of the city iscomprised of 10.4% African Americans, 3.7% Asian Americans, 2% American Indians, 0.2%Hawaiian Americans and 3.1% of the population reports being biracial. The median householdincome of Sentinel City is $49, 091 and 18.9% of residents live below the poverty level. Asmentioned previously Sentinel City can further be broken down into four separateneighborhoods (Sentinel City, 2018).Nightingale Square has a population of 103,974 with a median household income of$269,550 and a 0.7% uninsured resident rate. Acer Tech Center has a population of 168,390with a median household income of $166,300 and a 1.5% uninsured resident rate. Casper ParkDistrict has a population of 352,643 with a median household income of $80,134 and a 22.7%uninsured resident rate. Lastly, Industrial Heights has a population of 38,855 with a medianhousehold income of $24,672 and a 37.5% uninsured resident rate (Sentinel City, 2018).Neighborhood/Safety Assessment C228 Task 1During the neighborhood safety assessment there were various safety hazards noted.Multiple neighborhoods in Sentinel City had improperly disposed of trash or piles of trash alongthe sides of buildings, stray animals, rats and graffiti. The neighborhood in which the mostsafety concerns were noted was Industrial Heights. The area of Industrial Heights had oldgraffitied buildings in disrepair, dirty and poorly maintained streets and gutters, trash piled upwith stray animals and rats seen wandering the sidewalks and an active crime seen with aburning vehicle.Various types of crimes are committed in Sentinel City requiring police involvement. Themost frequent arrests, in order of prevalence, are related to cannabis, warrants, battery,controlled substances, trespassing, reckless conduct and public intoxication. Drug use inSentinel City consists mostly of tobacco and alcohol consumption with 24% and 26% ofresidents using each, respectively. As far as illegal substances are concerned the mostcommonly used are cannabis (12%), heroin (7%) and cocaine (5%). Gang violence is a concernwithin the city and accounted for 100 incidences of aggravated assault, 40 robberies, 38 simpleassaults and 20 homicides in 2017. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) response times varydepending on the service in question and are 6.33 minutes for assistance from the firedepartment, 7.46 minutes for basic life support and 7.54 minutes for advanced life support(Sentinel City, 2018).Windshield SurveySentinel City is an urban environment where the housing and commercial buildingsappear to be of varying ages, with the newest and most well-kept buildings seen in Nightingale [Show More]

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