Health-Need-Assessment in community diagnosis process

health need assessment

1. Health Needs Assessment Presented by: Krishna Sah Krishnandan Mahato Monika Yadav Nagendra Yadav Mithlesh Thakur

2. Contents Introduction to health needs assessment Application Types Steps Principles 1

3. Health Needs Assessment (HNA) Health needs assessment is a systematic method for identifying the health issues facing a population. It is the systematic approach to ensure that the health service uses its resources to improve the health of the population in the most efficient way. Health needs are those that can benefit to health from health care . 2

4. Applications 3 It helps to what needs to be accomplished to reach your project goals. It helps to identify medical needs of patients. It helps to identify , understand and prioritize the needs that districts and schools must address to improve performance.

5. Different types of needs Felt needs: - The health need that the community people immediately identify . Needs which are seen by the community people. II. Observed needs: Those health needs which can be scientifically shown to be needs in order to solve a community health. These needs are seen by the health exports outside . 4

6. 5 III. Real needs : Those needs that result from a jointly developed understanding of priority needs of the local people and priority needs as defined by those representing the government services sectors. It is the root cause of the health.

7. OBSERVED NEEDS Safe Drinking water Hypertension Tuberculosis Drugs abuse Diabetes Mellitus HIV/AIDS REAL NEEDS Safe drinking water Hypertension HIV/AIDS FELT NEEDS Safe motherhood Health facilities Environmental sanitation Tuberculosis Hypertension Safe drinking water Air pollution 6

8. 10 Steps of Health Need Assessment Profile your population Measure the extent of the problem Calculate the expected number of cases Collect service utilization data Calculate unmet needs Segment your population 7

9. 8 7 . Review current evidence 8. Measure your population expectation 9. Seek opinion 10. P roject the action programs and services need to deal with the identified problem

10. . Profile your population : in terms of age, gender, environmental factors, and life style Measure the extent of the problem : by gathering some data of incidence and prevalence Calculate the expected number of cases : prevalence X population/1000 Collect service utilization data : number or percentage of people accessing the service Calculate unmet needs : expected number of cases( step 3) – current number of people who are using the service (step4) 9

11. . 6 . Segment your population : total population, parents, high risk groups, people with disease, care giver. 7 . Review current evidence : effectiveness of health education, counselling, exercise, healthy life style. 8 . Measure your population perception and expectation : through interviews, questionnaire, focus group, health panel. 9 . Seek opinion : engage professionals and those people working in the field. 10 . Poject the action programs and services need to deal with the identified problem . 10

12. Principles of health needs assessment Health needs assessment should fit in with the appropriate decision making and planning systems. It is not an end in itself but means to help plan the future. Community people demand and feel health need to improve health status. 11

13. It is a part of cyclic process and should include an evaluation of how the needs have been met and not met by the health action taken. Real need should be fulfilled by community member , leader and government health service provider. 12

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