Assessing Population Health: Community Health Needs Assessment and Health Indicators

Assessing population health

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................2
BACKGROUND...................................................................................................................................2
Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)...............................................................................2
Community health profile and its relation to community health assessment.....................................2
Monitoring and surveillance and how it related to community health assessment.............................3
Community health profile..................................................................................................................3
POPULATION HEALTH INDICATORS (DEMOGRAPHIC, DEPRIVATION,
DETERMINANTS AND HEALTH STATUS).................................................................................3
Key demographic characteristics.......................................................................................................3
Key measures of deprivation (inequalities)........................................................................................4
Key measures of the determinants of health......................................................................................5
Implications of finding of profiles:....................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Assessment of population health is an approach which involve the analysis,
interpretation and measurement of population knowledge, intelligence and health data
regarding the health status of population and subpopulations as well as the social
determinants of health and health inequalities. There are four major components of
population health such as care integration, patient engagement, care coordination and
teamwork (Ortega and et.al., 2019).
The report will to analyse the Tower Hamlet borough community health needs,
profiles, monitoring as well as the implications of findings of community health profiles. The
theories of health needs, community assets will also be analysed as well.
BACKGROUND
Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)
It refers to the systematic procedure which involves community for identifying and analysing
the health needs of communities. The process is method for the communities to prioritize
their health needs as well plan and act on unsatisfied health needs of community. Is s
conducted a number of organizations (Gourevitch and et.al., 2019). The CHNA is important
as it helps the organizations significant information regarding the current health needs, issues
and status of community. The information gathered from the model can be very useful for
development and implementation of community health improvement plans through justifying
what and where should be resources allocated for meeting the needs of community.
Community health profile and its relation to community health assessment
A community health profile refers to the approach in which involves significant
comprehensive integration of information regarding a particular community. The data
generated in profiles reflects the status of health of a particular community from distinct
angles. A community health assessment involves community health profile in it. The
community health assessment uses the community profiles for monitoring health status,
creating and facilitating certain work groups as well help in identification of distinct resource
and strengths of a particular community (DeSalvo and et.al., 2021).
Monitoring and surveillance and how it related to community health assessment
Surveillance and monitoring in health refers to the monitoring of individuals with an
objective to identify changes within health status of that individual due to the occupational

exposure to a hazardous substance. The process occurs when the members of a particular
community actively participate in the activities such as reporting, responding, monitoring and
detecting of various health events in that community (Ginsburg, Wu and Orlando, 2019). The
information gathered from surveillance is shared with local and branch health authorities.
Monitoring and surveillance is used as tool for improvement processes in community health
assessment. It is used for performance monitoring that is intended to be used with health
improvement strategies associated with health issues of a particular community.
Community health profile
Community health profile can be defined as comprehensive compilation of
information about a community that have data related to the health of given community from
different angles. It is valuable record that is used to track the trends in health of local
communities in order to take initiative to improve the health and well-being of individual
living within the society (Rahman and et.al., 2019). Likewise, Tower Hamlets is 20% most
deprived districts as 30.3% (16,475) children live in low income families. While, on an
average the life expectancy for both women as well as men are similar to England. For
example: it is 11.4 years lower for men and 4.8 years lower for women.
POPULATION HEALTH INDICATORS (DEMOGRAPHIC, DEPRIVATION,
DETERMINANTS AND HEALTH STATUS)
Population health indicator represent quantitative characteristic of specific population
in order to know its heath status, number of male, female and adults living within the society.
Therefore, the demographic, deprivation and determination of health can be illustrated in
detailed as follows:
Key demographic characteristics
In terms of demographical characteristics, it is second most densely populated local
authority across United Kingdom, having 4 th youngest population. Likewise, almost half of
the population are between the age group of 20-39. In June 2017, there are 308,000 residents
so tower hamlet is fastest growing local authority in United Kingdom. It is 16 th mostly
ranked diverse local authority in England having mix of different ethnic group of population
and 12,900 more male residents than female residents. Hence in population size, it is ranked
11 largest out of 32 London Boroughs and City. Moreover, there are 32% of people
belonging to Bangladeshi, White other and White British and other ethnic group (Mangan
and et.al., 2021). Muslim is highest proportion of resident in borough that is around 38%. At