Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Observer-Expectancy Effect, Random Assignment

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2250A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Irwin

Document Summary

Once the planning committee is in place and a planning model has been selected, the next. Chapter 4: assessing needs step in the planning process is to identify the needs of those in the priority population. Defined need as the difference between the present situation and a more desirable one . Whether a need of the priority population is actual (true need) or perceived (reported need (does not matter) What matters is being able to identify all needs, actual and perceived, so that they can be addressed through appropriate program planning. From an epidemiologic viewpoint, a needs assessment has been defined as a systematic procedure for determining the nature and extent of problems experienced by a specific population that affect their health directly and indirectly . From a program planning viewpoint, a needs assessment is defined as the process of identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing the needs of a priority population.