NA Step 1
What is the first step in conducting a needs assessment?
Clearly defining the target population.
What is the second step in conducting a needs assessment?
Collect and analyze data on the target population's health status (population profiling).
What is the third step in conducting a needs assessment?
Identify the target population's health priorities.
What is the fourth step in conducting a needs assessment?
Planning for change.
In this step, you should determine what you want to learn and how the data will be used to guide future decisions. This is otherwise known as:
Identifying objectives
Collected data can be divided into two categories. Name them.
Primary and secondary data.
Will also accept quantitative and qualitative due to wording of question.
When outlining health priorities, it is important to consider how serious the health problem is. This is known as:
Severity
You want to clarify the aims of the intervention in this step. Which two steps should you revisit? (Steps 1, 2, 3, or 4).
Steps 1 and 3
In this step, you should clearly articulate why the assessment is being conducted and what specific issues or gaps it aims to address. This is otherwise known as:
Defining the purpose and scope.
Primary data is collected directly from the community. Please provide three examples of primary data.
Surveys, interviews, focus groups, nominal groups.
When outlining health priorities, it is important to consider how common the health problem is within the community. This is known as:
Prevalence
During this step, you want to determine what achieves aims/objectives and well as determine who does what. This is called:
Action Planning.
In this step, you should identify what resources are required. Please provide two (general) types of resources needed.
Budget, timeline, space, access to population, data, human resources (team, committee, stakeholders).
Secondary data is collected from existing sources. Please provide three examples.
Government records, vital statistics, and hospital discharge data.
When outlining health priorities, it is important to consider how much the health problem affects the community's quality of life. This is known as:
Impact
This step requires strategy. Please name two strategies you should develop.
Evaluation and risk-management
In this step, you want to establish a planning team. Please provide three (general) types of people that should be included in this team.
Key stakeholders, decision-makers, and people who will gather data.
Using a mix of primary and secondary sources provides a rich and comprehensive assessment. Why would you "need" secondary data? Please provide two reasons.
Secondary data provide detailed information from a large sample size that would be difficult and unrealistic for you to collect independently. They also provide information over several years, helping to identify trends.
When outlining health priorities, it is important to consider if there are any population groups in the community that are disproportionately affected by the health problem. This is known as:
Equity
A needs assessment is only completed once the results are shared and used. There are several ways to share the results with stakeholders. Please list three ways you could share.
Detailed report, executive summary, presentations, infographics.