Key Terms 1
The difference between the present situation and a more desirable one
What is a need?
The process of identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing the needs of a priority population
What is needs assessment?
Crime rates, substance abuse data, mental health data
What are types of secondary data?
What is the purpose?
The true need of a population
What is an actual need?
The reported needs of a population
What is a perceived need?
Directly answers questions planners want answered
What is an advantage of primary data?
Prioritization of needs
What is analyzing data?
Data that you collect yourself
What is primary data?
Data that are already collected by someone else and are available for your use.
What is secondary data?
Might not identify true needs of a priority population
What is a disadvantage of secondary data?
Genetic, behavioral, and environmental risk factors
What is identifying risk factors?
Data that have been distorted because of the way they have been collected
What is bias?
The individual, organizational, and community resources, such as leadership, relationships, operations, structures, infrastructure, politics, and systems, to name a few, that can enable a community to take action
What is capacity?
Written, Telephone, Group, Face to Face, Electronic
What are primary data collection methods?
Predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors
What is identifying the program focus?
Funds that are earmarked or dedicated to a specific disease (e.g. HIV/AIDS)
What are categorical funds?
A systematic process that uses an array of data sources and analytic methods and considers input from stakeholders to determine potential effects of a proposed policy, plan, program, or project on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population
What are health impact assessments (HIA)?
Government agencies, non- government agencies, existing records, literature
What are sources of secondary data?
Confirmation of needs, rechecking steps to eliminate bias, conducting focus groups with individuals from the priority population to see their reactions, getting a second opinion
What is validating needs?