Community Assessment:La Romana, Dominican Republic

Nur321 – Community Health Nursing

Kristen Vital and Michael Hardy

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

Vulnerable Population Pregnant women Infants and children Elderly Batey workers

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%)

Transportation &Industry

La Romana, The Bateyes

Batey Piñita

Batey Hugera

Batey Romanita & Ochenta

Proposed Interventions Water Filtration Program

Hand/food hygiene

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

Health Interventions

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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

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from http://www.who.int/gho/countries/dom/en/