Health Needs Assessment: Individual, Family, and Community

Abstract

The governing bodies all over the world and even in countries like US, Europe, Australia and Russia are facing the increase in demands in health care as well as economic constraints because of rising health care cost. Other reasons also incorporate limited resources and increase in inequalities in health. Health Needs Assessment for individual, Family and Community plays a central role and enables the health care providers, the managers and policy makers to make use of the maximum resources available and bring about maximum improvement in healthcare. It is a vital health care planning and assessment tool which can bring improvements at all levels in the community among the population. Health Need Assessment can be used to identify the health needs, can target resources and remove inequalities among the population.

Health Needs Assessment: Individual, Family, and Community

Introduction

Health Needs Assessment (HNA) is a precise technique for surveying the health issues confronting a populace, prompting concurred necessities and asset distribution that will enhance health and diminish inequalities (WMC, 2012). HNA is a suggested public health device to furnish proof in the vicinity of a populace on which to arrange administrations and address health biases. It gives a chance to captivate with particular populace and empower them to help targeting on administration arranging and asset allotment. HNA gives a chance for cross-sectorial association working and improving creative and adequate interventions.

Benefits from undertaking HNAs might be: strengthened group inclusion in choice making, improved group and association working, professional advancement of abilities and experience, improved correspondence with a different organization and the general population and better use of resources. The Department of Health (DH) charged the HDA to support the evidence into practice approach to enhancing health results, based on incorporating proof, studying and generally inferred specialist learning and locally imitative needs (WMC, 2012).

The systemic methodology utilized in HNA gives perfect chances for captivating with particular groups, assembling proof based approach to impact administration involvement. HNA is beneficial undertaking just provided that it comes about in progressions that will profit the populace. It is essential to be realistic and honest about what you are capable of achieving (Anonymous, 2013).

Discussion

Generally specialists are accustomed to assessing the health needs of their distinct patients. Through expert preparing and clinical experience we have improved a deliberate approach to this evaluation, and we utilize it before we begin medicine that we accept to be successful. Such a deliberate approach has regularly been absent with regards to assessing the health needs of a local or practice population. Recognizing between unique needs and the more extensive needs of the community is significant in the arranging and procurement of local health administrations. In the event that these necessities are disregarded then there is a risk of a top-down methodology to giving health administrations, which depends strongly on what a couple of individuals recognize to be the requirements of the populace, as opposed to what they really are. The expenses of health awareness are ...