Healthcare Questions

1. Adolescent pregnancy is viewed as a high-risk situation due to the serious health risks that this creates for the mother, the baby, and society at large. Describe various risk factors or precursors to adolescent pregnancy. Research community and state resources devoted in adolescent pregnancy and describe at least two of these resources. Research the teen pregnancy rates for the last 10 years for your state and community. Has this rate increased or decreased? Discuss possible reasons for an increase or decrease.
2. For this assignment, use the provided template to conduct a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis of your current (or former) emergency medical service (EMS) organization. If you have not worked for an EMS organization, conduct a SWOT analysis on your local organization. There should be a minimum of four assessments for each category. First, provide a brief overview of your organization. Then, using your SWOT analysis, determine the top two priorities that should be included in a strategic planning report to the personnel responsible for the leadership of the EMS organization. Also, provide a brief summary of your findings and recommendations for strategic planning based on your findings .

   This SWOT analysis and report should be a minimum of three pages in length, not counting the title page. Since this is about your organization, there is no requirement for any references, but they may be used if needed. If you choose to include references, you must cite and reference them according to APA guidelines.

3. Using resources such as the CDC, state and county health department websites, and various local resources, identify an opportunity for improved health behavior in an individual client. Your paper should be 1 – 2 pages in length in addition to the cover page and reference page. You should use a minimum of three references to support your work.

   Be sure to cover the following:

   Identify an opportunity to for improved health behavior in an individualized client.

   Identify short and long term goals for the achievement of the overall health goal.

   Using Healthy People 2020, identify which problem you are working on improving.

   Recognize local resources to aid in the resolution of the identified problem.

   Discuss measurements that can be used to determine the responses to interventions