Windshield Survey Michelle Smith University of Phoenix Healthy Communities: Theory and Practice NUR/405 Robert Roth April 23, 2012 Windshield Survey A Windshield Survey was completed for the city of Sandy Lake, a town in Northwestern PA with a population of approximately 13,000 people (Quick Facts Census website, 2012). The purpose of the survey is to identify Meadville’s community health needs. In addition to performing the survey, research was performed online to obtain supplemental demographic data. The research resulted in the following information about Meadville: * The ancestral lineage of the city is the Pennsylvania Dutch, who was descendants of Germany (City of Sandy Lake website, 2012). * The average …show more content…
Interstate 79 on the south end of town. The boundaries of the inner city area that were surveyed vary. On the north end of the city, the boundary is economical with more expensive housing noted while exiting the inner city area. The west side of the city has a highway that separates the inner city residential area from an industrial park. The east side of the city becomes more rural while driving further out of the city. A business district that appears more modern is the boundary for the south side of the town. | Commons | Children and youth primarily play in the recreational park, whereas adults tend to spend time in the park with the gazebo and benches. Although children from a nearby day care center can be seen walking in line through the gazebo park. A bar/restaurant on the main street is a busy establishment for adults. A 24 –hour convenient store is a popular hangout for teenagers who stand outside smoking cigarettes and socializing. A school on the east edge of town has school-aged children practicing on the fields. | Transportation | Multiple means of transportation are noted. Most people drive cars to work in the city because the housing becomes more rural and dispersed outside the city limits. Two people are noted to be riding pedal bikes through town. People who live within the city can also walk or take the public bus. The municipality owns the buses and
Moreover, public transportation is mainly common in means of transportation in and out of NYC due to the convenience, cost, and efficiency of public transportation. It has become more easily accessible due to having subways in nearly every other block,which is cheaper and faster. Public transportation is faster than driving into the city at times since it escapes the traffic on roads since it is underneath. Public transportation contains buses,trains,and light rails as well. Once again, automobile and the city of tomorrow can coexist, but it is not ideal in today’s
A windshield survey of a San Juan Capistrano community in the zip code area of 92675 (see Figure 1, Appendix) was performed to get a sense of neighborhood characteristics and to assess the area for opportunities to improve the health of the community (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). There was a focus on the Los Rios Street neighborhood (see Figure 2, Appendix) in the central part of the city where a high number of low-income Hispanics/Latinos live (United States Census Bureau [U.S. Census Bureau], 2012).
A Windshield Survey is an analysis of the community through the windshield of a vehicle, there are no interviews, only what one can see with the naked eye. This survey showed Collier County is home to a wide range of aggregates, some who live in the boarded up homes in rural Immokalee and those who live in multimillion dollar estates along the beaches of Naples, and everybody in between. As one would expect, there are many differences in the services offered between the rural and urban parts of the county. In the cities, there are numerous hospitals, urgent cares, and specialty physician clinics lining the streets. There are gyms, golf courses, and organic food markets around every corner. The streets are filled with fancy cars and golf carts to match this luxurious lifestyle. Along with these upscale restaurants and facilities, are more middle class amenities, such as pizza-by-the-slice eateries and your standard grocery stores, such as Wal-Mart and
Windshield survey is short and simple community assessment. They involve the collection of data that will help define the community, the trends, stability and changes that will affect the health of the community (Stanlope and Lancaster, 2014) Windshield survey is conducted by driving around the community assessing for its various characteristics such as boundaries, population, housing, environment, public and health services and many more. This paper will reflect on finding of community assessment performed through windshield survey that took place around neighborhood of Smith K Elementary School on Tuesday, 2/16/2016 at 1300.
How do people get in and out of the neighborhoods (e.g., car, bus, bike, walking)?
It is difficult to picture a city or town without a park or a playground for everyone to enjoy free of charge. This thought is not as far fetched, as some might believe. The massive movement for communities to provide public lands for relaxation, leisure and play has its roots in the Progressive Reforms around the turn of the twentieth century. The congestion of urban centers and the fading concept of child labor creates unintended consequences such as an increase in crime, lack of natural landscape and no place for children to play. To combat this problem cities across the country begin the process of implementing government inspired play to replace the open country that children generations before used as their playground.
Throughout the 1800’s, methods of transportation were limited; people either used horses or rode on the train. Most people lived in town near their work. With the introduction of the automobile, society evolved and soon transformed to fit the need of people’s transportation. Many of those needs caused by automobile invention included society, economy and finally, politics.
As it can be immediately seen the car is the most common means of transport in the city with 45% of people using it; the Light Rail Transit is at the second place, with 10% less than car percentage. The other common public means of transport, the bus, and taxi are \the less preferred ways of moving around the city with just the 10% of people using each of them.
Ultimately, many citizens rely on their cars to get to work and daily activities. In general, cars allow many citizens to travel short distances and are useful for everyday
If you just got your first vehicle, you are responsible for making sure that your windshield does not have any cracks or chips in it. In many states, you can get a ticket for driving around with a damaged windshield. Luckily for you, if something happens to your windshield, your insurance policy may cover the damage. Here are a few things that you need to know about the relationship between windshield coverage and your car insurance.
Lake City is an established neighborhood in northeast Seattle with a population of 39,939 as of 2013 (Demographic Now 2015). The borders of Lake City from south to north are from 95th Street to 145th Street and from Lake Washington to 15th Street going east to west. Walking, driving, and data retrieval comprised the survey of this area. The purpose of this paper is to identify potential community health issues that may impact the residents as a whole.
The SJ MAPP Core Team planned for the upcoming MAPP Steering Committee Meeting where health needs will be prioritized from the CHNA data. These will be used for the Community Health Improvement Plan. In preparation for this meeting, I reviewed the preliminary CHNA data. This data included results from focus groups, key informant interviews, and surveys. Health leaders from a variety of organizations selected the preliminary indicators that will be prioritized by the MAPP Steering Committee. I participated in establishing the criteria and scoring method to select the county’s top health needs. They will be evaluated by severity, disparities, prevention, resources, and impact. The logistics, invitation list, and agenda for were finalized for the upcoming planning meeting.
State,” the 2 major interstates, I-90 and I-81, intersect through the center of the county. The
A community may be perceived as not only the physical county boundary limitations, but the area consisting of diverse individuals gathered through shared history, practices, and perceptions. A healthy community provides an optimal quality of life for all residents by providing the ability to make choices from a variety of accessible and affordable healthy options. Pinellas County is a very diverse community located in the Tampa Bay area of the Western coast of Florida. Utilizing the Windshield survey approach, the community’s core, subsystems, and perceptions may be assessed, providing vital insight to what resources and
Understandably, some people enjoy large lawns. For every 1 home that is built on an acre property, 2 homes have to be built on ½ acre property. The homes will be built more northern and away from the river. Towards the southern part of the river will only be green space and nature preserves. The city will have a medium density