Health Sciences 2250A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Needs Assessment, Health Impact Assessment
9 Apr 2020
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Once the planning committee is in place and a planning model has been selected, the next step in the planning process is to identify the needs of those in the priority population. Need: the difference between the present situation and a. From an epidemiological viewpoint: more desirable one determining the nature and extent of problems experienced by a specific population that affect their health either directly or indirectly. Needs assessment: the process of identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing the needs of a. Conducting a needs assessment may be the most critical step in the planning process because it. From a program planning viewpoint: priority population provides objective data to define important health problems, sets priorities for program implementation, and establishes a baseline for evaluating program impact. No matter how needs assessment is defined, the concept embedded in the definitions is the same: Identifying the needs of the priority population and determining the degree to which the needs are being met.
