Health Sciences 3250F/G Final: CHAPTERS 4 8-14 for HS 2250 FINAL.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3250F/G
• Professor: Bill Irwin

Document Summary

The process of identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing needs or a priority population. Essential in program planning whether a need of the priority population is actual or received. Requires finding the most significant health problem, and finding out if you have resources, assets and capacity to deal with problem and any promising interventions related to the problem. Needs assessment is not necessary if another one had been done recently for a related program, planners employed by agency that deals with only a specific problem, funding is categorical and must be used on a specific problem. Interactive contact methods: those collecting data interact with those whom the data is being collected from. Directly answers the questions that planners want answered by those in the priority population. Data already collected by somebody else and available for you immediate use. Since the data already exists, this saves a lot of time and money. Information might not identify the true needs of the priority population.