DIE 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Health Education, Proxemics, Eye Contact

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Food Science and Human Nutrition
• Course: DIE 3310
• Professor: Beth Gankofskie

Document Summary

Community needs assessment- process of evaluating the health and nutrition status of a community: determines community health and nutrition needs, triggers. Identifies places where needs are not being met. Consider 3 categories of data: community data, community environment and background factors, target population data. Methods: use existing data, conduct a literature review, review existing programs, networking with colleagues, collecting data. Health statistics and reports from local, county, state departments. About community environment and background data: examples. About individuals who represent target population: examples. Large-scale surveys: national nutrition monitoring and. Periodicals: journal of the academy of nutrition and dietetics. Methods of obtaining: simple, cost-effective, able to be completed in reasonable time. Start with making a list of what you want to know. Are the survey questions easy to read and. How will it be interpreted: health risk appraisal- survey instrument used to characterize a population"s general health status. Asks questions about lifestyle factors that influence disease risk: screening.