I'm studying about needs assessment in health care (PMC1113121).
Do you have experience about this subject?
In positive case, could you share applied examples in national health systems (success or attempt)?
I've done needs assessments for disaster case management, but not a healthcare system. Here is a link to an article that may be helpful https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1113037/
Dear Roberta
Adopt first a definition of need (May be the gap between desired state and current state of the target population. This can be measured using specific indicators of morbidity, mortality, services availability, services utilization...etc) plus some sociodemographic aspects of the target population. Then decide what changes do you want, expect or desire to achieve within a given period of time. These achievable changes require now the resources (health care services) to be established or added. You need the help of an expert epidemiologist, manager and advice from an economist
With best regards.
Dear Roberta Lavin and Omran Habib,
Thanks for your attention.
I'm looking for applied examples, because the Health care needs assessment approach (ISBN 978-1-85775-890-0) is very complex.
Do you know some applied case to recommend for me?
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