Assessing Health Population

Assessing Health Population

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Background......................................................................................................................................1
Community Health Problem............................................................................................................2
Deprivation..................................................................................................................................2
Health and well-being needs........................................................................................................3
Implications of the Findings............................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
The present report is focused on the local health profile of Newham communities, who are at
greater risk to live poor quality of life. The purpose behind conducted this study is to entail the
issues faced by people of mentioned area, in terms of deprivation, life expectancy, illness and in-
accessibility of healthcare services (Wolfe and et. al., 2019). For this assistance, a detail analysis
is done on demographic challenges also, to understand the health and well-being needs of this
local area of England, by making a comparison with other areas. A number of secondary
resources such as government census report, public health profiles and more, is taken under
considerations.
Background
Community health needs assessment (CHNA) is mainly prepared to access the well-being
state of people who are living in a particular area. It provides ways to analyse as well as prioritise
the health needs of community, including the plan and actions required for meet the same (Finer
and et. al., 2020). It also refers as a process of collecting and analysing information from
numerous sources, for developing strategies to make improvement in well-being state of people.
But before to make such assessment, it is essential to understand the concept of community
health profile, which refers to comprehensive compilation of information, by compiling data of
one community to others. For gathering such information about needs and well-being state of
community, methods like public health monitoring and surveillance, can be used. Surveillance
according to WHO, can be defined as systematic and continuous collection of health related
information (Roe, Mazor and Gelkopf, 2019). In developing or developed countries like UK,
strong public health surveillance system allows public health authorities, for accessing and
prioritising the community needs, to increase their life expectancy. Health profile of community
and assessment related to their issues, also give support to policy makers for allocating resources
of their unmet needs, effectively.
Newham is one of the highly deprived boroughs of England, which has high rates of
deprivation (poverty by age, ethnic group, intensity and more). This would deeply affect the
children and its population of older age. Along with this, as compared with other boroughs of
England, it has reported that life-expectancy of people of Newham is much lower, due to high
intensity of poverty (Oatt, 2019). It shows evidences of existence regarding with health and well-
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