Health Needs Assessment Flashcards
What is a Health Needs Assessment (HNA)?
Systematic method for reviewing issues facing population, leading to agreed priorities and resources allocation to improve health and reduce inequalities
Define Supply, Need and Demand
Supply: What is provided
Need: Ability to benefit from intervention
Demand: What people ask for
Outline the planning cycle
Needs assessment -> planning -> implementation -> evaluation -> needs assessment etc…
Describe the difference between health need and health care need.
Health need: need for health.
Health care need: need for health care. It is more specific and looks at someone’s ability to benefit from health care.
What are the different types of need?
Felt: Ind. perceptions vary from normal health
Expressed: seeks help to overcome variation in normal health.
Normative: Professional defines interventions that are suitable for appropriate for expressed need
Comparative: severity, cost, range of interventions - comparison of all
Give one health related example of something that you consider is demanded but not needed or supplied.
Cosmetic surgery
What are the 3 types of Health Needs Assessments?
1) Epidemiological
2) Comparative
3) Corporate
What are the negative problems of epidemiological HNA?
1) Disregard felt needs
2) Variable data quality
3) Req’d data might not be available
Describe a Comparative NA and the problems
Def: Compares services of one population with another
-ves: variable data quality, req’d data not available, hard for comparable populations
Who might be involved with corporate health needs assessment?
Politicians.
Press.
Providers.
Professionals.
Patients.
Give 3 negative points for corporate health needs assessments.
1) Difficult to distinguish need from demand.
2) Groups may have vested interests.
3) May be influenced by political agendas.
How do you conduct an epidemiological HNA?
Define problem, size of problem then look at services, evidences and model. Then look to recommendations
