Assessing Health Population

Assessing Health Population
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Background......................................................................................................................................1
What a community health needs assessment is and why it is used.............................................1
What a community health profile is and how it is relate to community health needs assessment
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What monitoring and surveillance is and how it is relate to community health needs
assessment....................................................................................................................................2
Community health profile................................................................................................................3
Information about borough..........................................................................................................4
Key demographic characteristics.................................................................................................5
Key measures of deprivation (inequalities).................................................................................7
Key measures of health determinants e.g. education, family, neighbourhood............................8
Key measures of the health status of the community..................................................................9
Implications of the findings of the profile.......................................................................................9
Information ascertained from profile and falls under the category of priority public health
needs of the community...............................................................................................................9
Ascertainment from the profile analysis that who is vulnerable and which is disadvantaged
group..........................................................................................................................................10
Interpretation of community profile with the help of health need and population trends and
transitions theories.....................................................................................................................10
Determining what is community assets defined by community-based asset development
approach and why this should be included in future community profiles and community health
needs assessments......................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Community health profile includes integration of different information or data related to a
community. This information has contribution towards assessment of the community health on
the basis of different angles. Health assessment is important from the direction of determining
health status of public within a nation, different communities and local authority. This is needed
to be carry out on yearly basis through consideration of different factors. This has huge
importance towards ascertaining different level of information’s like demographic
characteristics, measures of deprivation, health status of community, level of education, family
and neighbourhood. This will provide the opportunity to identify the group of people who are
deprived from basic medical services and other priority health maintenance related services. This
is beneficial from the direction of improving heath related services in all over the nation along
with the communities that are selected for priority services (Al-Muraikhi and et. al, 2017). It
improves the livelihood of all society personnel where other determinant also start growing
subsequently. This aid in development of core health structure for serving best services towards
society within a nation. This report includes the assessment of Enfield Borough population
health. The main aim of this report is to gather the information about actual health status and
other determinants so improvement will be made in positive direction.
The main aspects that are discussing in essay by adhering the same order as presented here
includes background information related to community health need assessment and community
health profile, community health profiling of Enfield borough through gathering the information
upon demographic characteristics, measures of deprivation, measures of health determinants and
key measures of health status of community and implications of the findings of profiling upon
betterment of future services.
Background
What a community health needs assessment is and why it is used
A community health needs assessment introduces to a systematic process of involving the
community to recognise and investigate health needs of community. This process gives an
effective way for entire community to prioritize health requirements, and to plan as well as act
upon backordered community health needs. Community health needs assessment may be
organised by a different variety of enterprises. There are number of methods includes in
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conducting this type of assessment such as stakeholders meeting, surveys, interviews with
community leaders, community focus group, population health and other health–related
information and many other (Bali and Ramesh, 2019). All these are considering main methods
that will be beneficial in identification of community health needs easily. Along with this, there
are number of secondary sources such as journals, articles, publication research etc. All these are
also effective in identifying and analysing of community health needs in detailed manner. In
addition, a community health needs assessment in not a one-off action but effective development
procedures that is added to and amended over a time period. There are different reasons for using
community health needs assessment which will be explained as below:
 Maximum transparency to enhance community engagement as well as
accountability
 Use of proof based interventions and consolation of inventive practices with
careful assessment
 Assessment to inform a continuous health improvement process
 Enhanced knowledge regarding public health
What a community health profile is and how it is relate to community health needs assessment
A community health profile refers as a comprehensive collection of data regarding a
community. The information in a profile show the health needs of a community from various
angles. Community can introduce to a nation, locality within a nation or multi-nation region. The
information may cover secondary data that is already gathered and published regarding a
community or data gathered by administration or an individual creating the profile.
A community health needs assessment frequently yields a lengthy record of public health
requirements and issues. This record can then be followed to set priorities. The rationale of
prioritization is to build up consensus on a small record of objectives that a centre of population
can practically tackle. Arranging is a significant and from time to time difficult procedure that
can show the way to assessable enhancement within the health of a population (De Alba and et.
al., 2016).
What monitoring and surveillance is and how it is relate to community health needs assessment
Monitoring and surveillance are seen as statistical or numerical process that will support
health authorities to accomplish better and effective health services with the available resources.
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