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Study Group - Needs Assessment Flashcards

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CDC

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Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

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MMWR

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Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report

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BRFSS

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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

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YRBSS

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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System

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NCHS

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National Center for Health Statistics

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AHA

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American Heart Association

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ACS

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Acute Coronary Syndrome

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WHO

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World Health Organization

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USDHHS

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United States Department of Health & Human Services

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NACCHO

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National Association of County & City Health Officials

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ACA

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Affordable Care Act

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What is first step in planning health program?

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  1. Needs Assessment
  2. Capacity Assessment
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Why is needs assessment & capacity assessment important?

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  • Directs use of limited resources
  • Provides focus on priority population
  • Ensures priority population needs are being addressed
  • Identifies community/target population’s level of capacity
  • Establishes “roadmap” for HES
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What should be included in a needs assessment?

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  • Purpose & scope of assessment
  • Priority population
  • Available resources, policies, programs, practices, & interventions
  • Factors & determinants
  • Recruit/Engage priority population & stakeholders
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Community Assets

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  • Individual
  • Institutional
  • Organizational
  • Governmental
  • Physical
  • Land
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Models for Conducting Needs Assessment

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  1. Epidemiological (death rates, # of individuals using health services, etc.)
  2. Public Health
  3. Social
  4. Asset
  5. Rapid
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What does Public Health Model for Needs Assessment focus on & consider?

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  • Specific Populations
  • Considers limited resources
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What issues does Social Model for Needs Assessment consider?

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Social & political issues that influence health

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What does Asset Model for Needs Assessment focus on?

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Strength of community, organization, or population

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When is Rapid Model for Needs Assessment used?

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When there is lack of time & money

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What should HES collect in Needs Assessment to Understand Health Issues in Community?

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  • WHAT & WHY health issue is happening
  • Health equity & social-ecological factors/influences
  • Data to ensure understanding of health influences
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Why is Understanding Health Influences during Needs Assessment Important?

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To ensure success of knowledge/behavior change (success of program)

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What are the types of population needs to be included in needs assessment?

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  1. Expressed
  2. Actual
  3. Perceived
  4. Relative
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What are Expressed needs?

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  • needs that are observed through individual’s use of services
  • Revealed through health seeking behavior
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What are Actual Needs?

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Lack, deficit, inadequate, or excess of services from one community to another

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What are actual needs used for during needs assessment?

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To determine if need exists within target population

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What are perceived needs?

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What individuals in community state they want

  • Provides sense of lack of services
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What are relative needs?

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Gap/deficit identified between advantaged & disadvantaged groups or individuals

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What do PARTNERS bring to the table?

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  1. Knowledge, skills, & resources
  2. Willing to share risks, responsibilities, & rewards
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Who are stakeholders?

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  1. Those who affect or are affected by health/behavior change
  2. Those who have interest in results and/or what would be done with results
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What are some benefits to partnerships?

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  1. Meeting needs of priority population that CANNOT be met by individual group’s capacity
  2. Sharing financial resources
  3. Solving shared problem of priority population
  4. Bringing more stakeholders to the “table”
  5. Increase program credibility
  6. Viewing health problem from multiple perspectives
  7. Greater response to addressed need (strength in #s)
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Why is primary data important?

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Allows HES obtain accurate data about health problem, behavior influences, & potential solutions specific to target population

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What should primary data collection focus on?

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Information gaps from secondary sources

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Why is secondary data collection important?

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  1. Helps HES understand existing knowledge on health concern/topic & populations
  2. Provides opportunity to identify information gaps that need to be a part of needs assessment
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What are some credible resources to collect secondary data?

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BIOETHICSLINE, ERIC, HAPI, MEDLINE, National Library of Medicine, TOXNET, Cochrane Library, PubMed, SUMSearch

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What needs to be considered when using secondary data?

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Reliability, Accessibility, Timeliness, Applicable to priority population

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What are some types of methods to collect primary data?

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Surveys, self-assessment, observations, community forums, focus groups, Nominal Group Process, Delphi Panel, Community Capactiy (Inventory & Asset Map), PhotoVoice

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What is Nominal Group Process?

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Highly structured process in which a 5-7 representatives from priority population are asked to respond to specific questions based on what HES need to know

  • Each member of group has equal voice in discussion & voting
  • Members share opinions by privately ranking proposed ideas & sharing their ranking with groups in round-robin fashion
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What is Delphi Panel?

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Group process that generates consensus by using series of mailed or emailed questionnaires

  • Includes decision makers, staff, & program participants
  • Starts with 1-2 broad questions and answers are analyzed
  • Successive questionnaires sent to same people based on analysis of responses
  • Questionnaires sent out 3-5 times
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What is PhotoVoice?

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Specific photographic technique to enable people to record & reflect on personal & community strengths & concerns

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What should HES consider when choosing method(s) of data collection?

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  1. What questions are being asked
  2. Participants (their characteristics & preferences)
  3. Resources available
  4. Timeframe to complete assessment
  5. Feasibility among populations to identify disparities
  6. Potential bias
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What are the basic components of collecting primary data?

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  1. Data collection & instrument development
  2. Data analysis plan
  3. Findings or results of assessment
  4. Written report of data
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What are the planning stages of collecting primary data?

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  1. Planning survey
  2. Overall design
  3. Data collection Method
  4. Plan data analysis
  5. Drawing sample
  6. Construct questionnaire
  7. Pretest questionnaire
  8. Revise questionnaire
  9. Administer questionnaire
  10. Code preparation
  11. Verification
  12. Data entry
  13. Tabulation
  14. Analysis
  15. Record/Report
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How do HES improve health status of communities they work with?

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Modify social determinants of health (SOH) among individuals & communities

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What are SOH?

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Conditions people are born, live, work, play, & age that affect their overall health (WHO definition)

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How do SOH affect one’s health status?

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Overlapping connection to health disparities & health equity

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What does SOH include? What are they impacted by?

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  • Includes health risks, daily functioning, & quality of life (QOL)
  • Impacted by economics, social policies, & politics
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What can HES use to determine goals & objectives of health promotion program? Where can this information be found?

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Identify which SOH factors are most important & changeable

Found in:
- Data from needs assessment
- Risk factors (found from secondary data - literature review)
- Surveys (e.g. YRBSS, BRFSS)

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Healthy People 2030 Categories of SOH

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  1. Health Care Access & Quality
  2. Neighborhood & Built Environment
  3. Social & Community Context
  4. Economic Stability
  5. Education Access and Quality
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What is the ultimate goal of Healthy People 2030?

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Reduce health disparities & achieve health equity

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What are health disparities?

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Differences among populations in health status, behavior, & outcomes due to multiple influences

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What is health equity?

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Reducing & ultimately eliminating disparities in health & its determinants that adversely affect certain groups/populations

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Why should health disparities & health equity matter when it comes to improving health of communities?

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Multiple components are interrelated affecting influences of disease, function, health behaviors, & overall well-being

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What are the 5 levels of health behavior influences?

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  1. Individual
  2. Interpersonal
  3. Institutional
  4. Community
  5. Public Policy
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What influences health behavior on individual level?

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Knowledge, attitudes, & beliefs

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What influences health behavior on interpersonal level?

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Association with family, friends, & peers

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What influences health behavior on institutional level?

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Rules, regulations, & policies

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What influences health behavior at community level?

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Social networks & norms

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What influences health behavior at Public Policy level?

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Local, state, & federal policies & laws

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What are Systems Strategies?

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Changes that impact all elements of an organization, institution, or system that is working as a whole to accomplish overall goal

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What is a systems change?

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Modification in how collective unit decides policies, program services, decision making & allocation of resources

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How can HES determine effectiveness of programs/interventions?

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Use recommendations from variety of sources

  • Scientific literature
  • Program staff, stakeholders, & decision makers
  • Systematic reviews & meta-analysis of evidence-based practices
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How can HES identify gaps or overlaps in existing programs?

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  • Communicating with stakeholders in the community
  • Looking at services used by clients
  • Observing levels & patterns of provided services
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Community Guide to Community Preventative Services

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  1. Provides summary of what is known about the effectiveness, economic efficiency, & feasibility of interventions to promote community health & prevent disease
  2. Includes evidence-based recommendations for programs & policies to promote population-based health
  3. Evidence on specific topics
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When creating health program for priority population, what does HES need to determine that already exists within the community?

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Programs, services, and/or policies

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What can HES do/use to ensure success & sustainability of health program?

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`1. Needs & Capacity Assessments
2. Community-building processes
3. Review of actual & potential resources to ensure realistic programs be implemented & sustained
4. Asset Mapping

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What is community-building process?

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Identify, nurture, & celebrate community assets

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What is asset mapping?

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  • Maps out community capacity & strengths
  • Identifies available programs/interventions
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What is the final step in needs assessment?

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  1. Validation needs identified in assessment
  2. “Double checking” identified needs are actual needs
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What are some methods HES can use during final step of needs assessment?

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  1. Rechecking steps of needs assessment to eliminate bias
  2. Conducting focus groups (if not used during needs assessment)
  3. Second opinion from other health professionals
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How can HES determine priorities for planned intervention?

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Synthesize assessment findings/information

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What factors should be identified to help HES determine priorities for planned intervention?

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  1. Predisposing
  2. Enabling
  3. Reinforcing
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What are Predisposing factors?

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Individual knowledge & affective traits

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What are enabling factors?

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Factors that make it possible to change behavior

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What are reinforcing factors?

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Feedback & encouragement resulting from behavior change

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What does HES need to determine in order to prioritize health needs?

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  1. Size/scope of health problem
  2. Rate degree of importance & changeability for each health problem
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How can HES increase capacity of community to ensure needs of priority population are met?

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  1. Tailor programs to priority population
  2. Use multiple components (multiplicity)
  3. Provide support
  4. Inclusion
  5. Dose
  6. Recruitment, reach, & response
  7. Interaction & satisfaction
  8. Context
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How should HES frame recommendations? Why?

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Use ‘plain language’

  • Ensures priority population can make informed decisions on what needs and/or can be feasibly done
  • Provides priority population with enough information to rank recommendations based on highest priority
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What should HES decide when disseminated results?

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  1. Who will receive summary of results of assessment
  2. What format will be used to present the findings
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Elements of Community

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  1. People
  2. Place
  3. Interaction
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What is Community-Based?

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Describes where program or service is provided

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What is Community-Focused?

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Refers to way in which program is designed

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What do programs that are community-focused seek to affect?

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Community as a whole

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What is Community-Driven?

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  • Involvement of community members in design and implementation
  • Includes community’s preferences and need
  • Determines how community is involved
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Levels of Assessment

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  1. Individuals
  2. Families/Groups that have interaction
  3. Communities, neighborhoods: common geographic or interest that may interact
  4. Aggregates: those who have something in common but do not interact (segment of population)
  5. Populations
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Assessment Challenges

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  1. Those receiving services (easy to survey)will be different from those not receiving services (difficult to survey)
  2. Act of asking may change responses
  3. Assessment can be lengths & costly process
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Community Analysis & What does it include?

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Process of assembling information about target population

  • Includes general health & summary and evaluation of available health care
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Community Diagnosis & what does it consider in regards to health problems?

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Professional opinion of health of individual/community analysis

  • Relation of health problems to available health services
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Factors that influence health & health related behavior

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  1. Behavioral
  2. Environmental
  3. Social
  4. Biological
  5. Health & Lifestyle
  6. Policy
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Steps of Needs Assessment

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  1. Assessing information needs
  2. Policy Assessment
  3. Administrative Assessment
  4. Stakeholders (Identification & Analysis)
  5. Assessing capacity for improving community health status
  6. Behavioral & Environmental Assessments
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Why is training personnel how to collect data important?

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To reduce bias

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What are topics that need to be covered when training people how to collect data?

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  • Purpose
  • Method
  • Rights of those involved
  • Timeline
  • Legal guidelines
  • Ethical issues
  • Data storage
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MATCH

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Multi-level Approaches to Community Health

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Steps of MATCH

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  1. Choose goals for health status & report prevalence, change possibility, & resources available
  2. Choose target population & report prevalence, availability, & interest in program of health issue to target population
  3. Establish goals for health behavior
  4. Establish goals for service access, program resources, & any restrictions

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