Assessing Population Community of Croydon

Assessing population
community of Croydon

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................1
COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFILE..............................................................................................2
IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS OF THE PROFILE..........................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Community health profile is a combination to various sets of data which represents the
information about health conditions in a community (Chami, Kabatereine and Tukahebwa,
2019). This type of health profile collectively discusses the health of people living in a
community. The main aim of this report is to summarise a community’s health profile. For this
purpose, the community which is selected is Croydon; this community is a town in England,
United Kingdom.
In this present report, various community health needs will be identified along with its
assessment. Short and long health profiles are discussed by analysing the population health
indicators, demographic characteristics and measures of deprivation, determinants and health
status of a community. In this report, community health and wellbeing data of Croydon
community is used which is procured from Public Health England Unitary authority.
BACKGROUND
Community health needs assessment is a regional health assessment which identifies the
key health issues which a community is facing and then needs to resolve those issues are
identified (Elliott and Scime, 2019). This assessment is a continuous procedure in which
systematic data is collected and then analysed. This assessment is based upon few principles
which are transparency, improvement, quality and engagement. The reason behind using this
assessment is to identify the health needs of the community and then develop plans by which
those needs can be fulfilled. This assessment is used to prioritise the needs and then grant funds
accordingly.
A community health profile is a document which accumulates all the information about a
community’s health including health needs, influential diseases and many more. This type of
profile reflects the health status of a community from different angels which even provides life
expectancy of an individual living in that community. As this profile have all the information
about a community’s health status. This document is used to identify the health needs and then
analyse them. The relationship between community health profile and needs assessment is
positive as when the health profile of a community change, their health neds also variates.
Monitoring is the process of regular and continuous observation of activities so that a
project can be assessed over its progress. This process refers to the supervising of actions in
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