Community Needs Assessment

Qualitative health needs assessment of a former mining community.

This paper reports on a health needs assessment that set out to elicit the perceived and expressed health and wellbeing needs of the residents of a former mining village in Kent. Data was principally collected from residents, professionals and stakeholders through focus groups and interviews. Open days enabled key themes to emerge and provided verification of the research findings. A wide range...

A clinical decision support needs assessment of community-based physicians

OBJECTIVE To conduct a grounded needs assessment to elicit community-based physicians' current views on clinical decision support (CDS) and its desired capabilities that may assist future CDS design and development for community-based practices. MATERIALS AND METHODS To gain insight into community-based physicians' goals, environments, tasks, and desired support tools, we used a human-compute...

Community and medical staff collaborate in needs assessment.

Needs Assessment of an Ethnic Chinese Community in Japan

This study is a needs assessment of ethnic Chinese older adults in Japan. The Delphi method was applied to identify the needs addressed by the focus groups. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs model guided the examination of the community’s political, economic and social environment in satisfying the needs of older community members. The needs were matched with a city’s Health, Welfare, and Long-term C...

Using multilevel, multisource needs assessment data for planning community interventions.

African Americans and Latinos share higher rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes compared with Whites. These diseases have common risk factors that are amenable to primary and secondary prevention. The goal of the Chicago REACH 2010-Lawndale Health Promotion Project is to eliminate disparities related to CVD and diabetes experienced by African Americans and Latinos in two contiguou...