Addressing national and regional health needs: A framework for health planning

1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonita F. Stanton ◽  
John D. Clemens ◽  
Robert E. Black
Keyword(s):  
Health Planning ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Regional Health

Collaborating to Assess Regional Health Needs and Resouces: Challenges and Lessons to Date

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra MacDonald ◽  
Abraham Ross ◽  
Judith Blakeley ◽  
Donna Best ◽  
Lorna Bennett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Needs ◽  
Regional Health

Estimation of an index of regional health needs in Spain using count regression models with filter

Health Policy ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Montero Granados ◽  
Juan de Dios Jiménez Aguilera ◽  
José Jesús Martín Martín
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Regional Health

Male Adolescents’ Health Needs in Iran and the Associated Factors

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Amir Mohammad Safardoost ◽  
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Zahra Bostani Khalesi ◽  
Enayatollah Homaei Rad ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
Birth Rank ◽  
Health Need

Background: Attention to adolescent health is one of the Millennium Development Goals. Adolescent health planning to achieve an acceptable level of health and prevention of waste of capital should be based on attention to all aspects of health and performing needs assessment. Objective: This study aims to determine the health needs of male adolescents in Iran and the factors associated with their needs. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. Participants were boys studying in the first and second year of high school in the fields of mathematics, experimental sciences, humanities, and technical sciences at public, non-profit, and gifted & talented schools in Rasht, Iran. The sampling was done using a multi-stage cluster sampling method. Data were collected by using a demographic form and the Male Adolescent Health Needs-Assessment Scale. Results: The boys’ Mean±SD scores of physical, sexual, mental, and social health needs was 49.65±0.15, 11.39±0.12, 89.28±0.29 and 47.3±0.24, respectively. Majority of them obtained excellent scores in physical (76%) and mental health (94%) needs and a good score in social health (81.3%) need, while they earned a moderate score in sexual health need (57.8%). Liner regression analysis results showed that the physical health need of boys had a statistically significant relationship with the type of study school (P= 0.001); their sexual health need with age (P= 0.002), type of study school (P= 0.015), mother’s education (P= 0.025), and mother’s occupation (P= 0.005); their mental health need with the type of study school (P= 0.009), birth rank (P= 0.048), father’s job (P= 0.021), and mother’s job (P= 0.022); and their social health need with the type of study school (P= 0.001). Conclusion: Most important health needs of male adolescents in Iran is sexual health need followed by social, physical and mental health needs. The most important factors related to their health needs are type of study school, mother’s job and education, birth rank, and father’s job. The results of this study can be effective and useful in designing and implementing need-based interventions to promote male adolescents’ health.

Moving towards meaningful local population health data: The service provider perspective

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Ruth ◽  
Rosalind Hurworth ◽  
Nabil Sulaiman
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Using Data

Increasingly, primary care services are required to use data to assess their local population's health needs and plan services. This paper reports focus group discussions of service providers' perceived current practice, issues and needs related to obtaining and using data for planning services in two local government areas of Melbourne. Six groups were conducted with nominees from two municipal councils, four divisions of general practice, three community health services, three hospital networks and eight community organizations. Two groups were conducted with planners and data providers from the Department of Human Services, Victoria. The 66 participants had a broad range of experience in using data to assess local population health needs. Participants reported that issues limiting the use of data related to: access to data (lack of awareness, contacting the right person, poor communication between data providers and users, resource constraints, lack of central access); gaps in data; quality of data (inconsistent definitions and collection, currency, ties to funding); applicability of data (unfriendly format, problems with aggregated versus small area data, non-matching data sets, lack of contextual information); and support for data use in local population health planning. If local population needs assessment is to lead to better health outcomes, service providers need access to high quality data presented in formats that are applicable to their communities. They also need practicable planning methods, skills training and support in using data for local population needs assessment and service planning.

Vancouver regional health planning model

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Milsum ◽  
D. Uyeno ◽  
I. Vertinsky ◽  
H. Will
Keyword(s):  
Health Planning ◽  
Planning Model ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
Regional Health Planning

scholarly journals Data, circumstance and politics: reflections on regional mental health planning

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Jeff Fuller ◽  
Jane Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Health Service Use ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
Regional Health Planning ◽  
Planning Project

We use our experience as consultants to a regional mental health planning project in South Australia to describe threepractical aspects of regional health planning. First, we systematically summarised various data on socio-demographicindicators, health status and health service use along with qualitative opinion about needs and services fromconsultations with over 200 stakeholders. In addition to these data, we found that attention to two other aspects ofplanning, circumstance and politics, were of critical importance, particularly if the plan was to be implemented andas a way of turning thinking into action.

Towards quality primary health care: the dilemma of Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in health service provision in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barnabas Addi ◽  
Benjamin Doe ◽  
Eric Oduro-Ofori
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Primary Health Care Facilities

PurposeOver the past two decades, Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) has been a pragmatic strategy towards universal Primary Health Care (PHC) in Ghana. However, the ability and capacity of these facilities to deliver quality primary health care remain an illusion as they are still crumbling in myriad challenges. These challenges are translated to the poor-quality services provision and low community utilization of CHPS facilities. The study presents a comparative analysis of three communities in the Kassena-Nankana East Municipality, Ghana.Design/methodology/approachUsing a mixed-method research design, the study gathered and analysed data from 110 households, three community health officers (CHOs) and three community leaders using semi-structured questionnaires and interview guides.FindingsThe findings indicated that the facilities do not have the requisite inputs such as drugs and supplies, logistics, appropriate health personnel, good infrastructure, funding support necessary to deliver quality and appropriate healthcare services that meet the health needs of the communities. For the CHPS to realize their full potentials as PHC facilities, it is required that the needed inputs such as logistics, drugs and appropriate staff are in place to facilitate the activities of CHOs.Research limitations/implicationsDue to the limited number of participants and selection of the study communities, the results may generalization. Also, the researchers acknowledged the inability to interview the district level health officials and the Kassena-Nankana Municipal Assembly during the field visits. This could have provided in-depth knowledge on the findings of this research as well as the validation of the results from the communities' perspective. Several attempts were made to contact and interview district-level authorities which proven futile due to the unavailability of targeted respondents. This resulted in limiting the studies at the community level. However, this limitation does not disprove the findings of this study.Practical implicationsThe article implications for planning primary health care strategies include a keen assessment of community health needs and institutional management of primary health care facilities, equip PHC facilities with adequate resources such as drugs and appropriate staffing to provide the health needs of the communities.Originality/valueThe paper fulfils the gap in the literature by providing empirical data on how the challenges of primary health care facilities affected the provision of high quality service and how this can affect community’s use of the facilities.

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