Health needs assessment: Needs assessment: from theory to practice

Needs assessment: from theory to practice.

The subjects of healthcare needs assessment are the populations and patients who are recipients or potential beneficiaries of health care. Populations, of course, include individual patients. The assessment of individuals' needs may form part of the assessment of a population's needs, but it may be costly and it risks ignoring individuals with needs who do not present themselves for health care...

Assessment of health needs in multidisciplinary care.

Maternal - Child Health Needs Assessment in Haiti.

Maternal and neonatal mortality in Haiti are among the highest in the world. This study investigated maternal-child health needs in Haiti, using a mixed method approach including qualitative and quantitative data collection. Participants (n=119) comprised of 39 healthcare workers and 80 Haitian women. The focus group centered around three major themes: difficult access to healthcare; health iss...

Scottish Needs Assessment Programme ADULT ORAL HEALTH

Development and importance of health needs assessment.