Needs Assessment for Heart Foundation in New Zealand

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1NEEDS ASSESSMENT
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Chosen organization and focus on needs assessment......................................................................2
Operations................................................................................................................................2
Issue in the Need Assessment..................................................................................................2
Summary of the issue.......................................................................................................................3
Data Collection................................................................................................................................5
Ethics and Community participation...............................................................................................6
Analysis and use of results..............................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

2NEEDS ASSESSMENT
Chosen organization and focus on needs assessment
The chosen organization for the needs assessment plan is Heart Foundation, New
Zealand. In the year 1959, maximum New Zealand struggled with cardiac disease caused death.
In the same year, a selected group of cardiologists, business people and lawyers established the
Heart Foundation for serving the people of New Zealand. In the year 1961, the fundraising began
with the Heart Beat appeal (Heartfoundation.org.nz, 2019). There was a time when there were no
support programs for the patients who left the hospital after the surgery of heart. It can be
referred to be a charity established in the year 1959. It envisions having the best cardiovascular
health in the world. The mission is to reduce the rates of people suffering from heart diseases
and dying out of it. In New Zealand, people are found to be suffering from the cardiovascular
disease to the maximum.
Operations
The activities of the Heart Foundation have been funding the research related to the
cardiovascular research having supported the health professionals in their practice. The activities
also include the development of the health promotion activities, educating the public and
assisting the people with the cardiovascular disease. The organization claims that its activities
have positively helped to reduce the number of deaths out of the cardiovascular diseases. In the
year 2012, nearly 34 % of the deaths have been caused by cardiovascular disease
(Heartfoundation.org.nz, 2019).

3NEEDS ASSESSMENT
Issue in the Need Assessment
The need is more extensive research on the healthy eating and nutrition needs of people
of middle age in New Zealand. It is required for spreading awareness on how to reduce the heart
diseases and death rates by cardiac arrest. The organization needs to have an in-depth knowledge
of the daily lifestyles of people because it provides people with the information and guidance to
minimize the risk (Hooper et al., 2015). The organization distributes almost 1.3 million
brochures on maintaining good heart health. Every year, the information service of the
organization and the website provides the information about the heart health to the people of
New Zealand , thousand in number.
A need assessment must be conducted for knowing more about the lifestyle of the New
Zealand people so that the Heart Foundation can conduct campaigns for the suffering of people
in and build a healthy community (Heartfoundation.org.nz, 2019). A successful need assessment
will lead the organization to promote the lifestyle changes in order to improve the heart health of
the New Zealand. The campaigns and the awareness programs will be more specific and tailored
to the needs of the people of New Zealand.
Summary of the issue
The unhealthy life-style of the people in the contemporary world has been found to be the
major reason behind the cardiac diseases (Bhatnagar et al., 2015). The excessive consumption of
junk –food, cholesterol rich food intake and alcoholism is another reason behind chronic heart
disease. The studies from the existing literature have confirmed that the propensity is high in the
aboriginal people between the age group of 45-65 (Mozaffarian, 2016). It has been found that the
heart diseases describe an extensive range of conditions which affects the heart. There are many