Health needs assessment

2021 ◽  
pp. 559-572
Author(s):  
Michael P. Kelly ◽  
Jane E. Powell ◽  
Natalie Bartle
Keyword(s):  
Health Economics ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Cost Utility ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Health Needs Assessment ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Equity And Efficiency ◽  
Health Need ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter begins with a consideration of the technical processes used for conducting health needs assessment. The relationship between health needs assessment and health economics is then examined and the philosophy of utilitarianism and its influence on health economics is explored. Cost utility analysis and its links to studies of quality of life are described and the important relationships between equity and efficiency are considered. The chapter then proceeds to explore the political and philosophical issues attaching to health needs assessment. This leads to an elaboration of the concept of justice derived from the work of Sen. Using ideas about the importance of human capabilities an argument is developed about the relational approach to understanding justice. The relational as against the individualistic position is found to provide a novel and useful way of describing health need and of attempting to meet that need. It also provides a set of precepts about the ways that services might be configured.

scholarly journals Health needs assessment in patients assisted by a pharmaceutical non-profit charitable organisation: a preliminary pharmacoepidemiological survey based on the analysis of drug dispensation within Italy’s Banco Farmaceutico

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Bini ◽  
Antonello E. Rigamonti ◽  
Francesco Fiorini ◽  
Pietro A. Bertazzi ◽  
Gian Francesco Fiorini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Health Needs Assessment ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Charitable Organisation ◽  
Internal Medicine Wards ◽  
Chronic Problem

We performed a health needs assessment of the vulnerable population cared for by the <em>Banco</em> <em>Farmaceutico</em>, an Italian non-profit charitable organisation that supplies medicines for many centres belonging to different charities. Drug dispensed in the first half of 2014 by a representative sample of these centres were examined. An independently conducted telephone interview on our centres complemented this data. Adult males and migrants constituted the majority of the user population, and the most dispensed drugs were those for the respiratory system. Of all patients, 40% presented with a chronic problem and more than half needed polypharmacy. Users seek help spontaneously in 70% of the cases, with the centres being able to meet 80% of the existing demand. Patients that could not be managed were referred to local hospitals or collaborating doctors and reasons were explored. We believe our study to be a first attempt to characterise a growing population that is also increasingly represented in emergency departments and internal medicine wards. It is also an evaluation of the quality of data collected by charitable institutions, highlighting a significant need for improvement as they could be the only basis to monitor the health needs of this type of population.

scholarly journals 7.2-O7A qualitative health needs assessment of Syrian Refugees in a Non-traditional City of Migration

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R Alwan ◽  
A Beydoun ◽  
D Schumacher ◽  
S Jernigan ◽  
S Okay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Health Needs Assessment

Male Adolescents’ Health Needs in Iran and the Associated Factors

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Amir Mohammad Safardoost ◽  
◽  
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.

scholarly journals Community-based health needs assessment in Léogâne and Gressier, Haiti: six years post-earthquake

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Wood ◽  
Kelly S. Chapman ◽  
Valery M. Beau de Rochars ◽  
Sarah L. Mckune
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Health Needs Assessment ◽  
Community Based

Women's knowledge in Madagascar: A health needs assessment study

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn M. Dell ◽  
Susan L. Erikson ◽  
Eddy Andrianirina ◽  
Gabrielle Smith
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Health Needs Assessment ◽  
Assessment Study ◽  
Women's Knowledge ◽  
Women’S Knowledge
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