Section: Module 3: Lesson 1: Needs Assessment and Equitable Health Policies | Health Policy and Management | NextGenU.org
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Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:- Define "community health safety" and "preparedness."
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Explain the importance of community health safety and preparedness.
- Describe different methods for ensuring community health safety and preparedness.
- Recognize health determinants within a community.
- Define needs, assets, and capacities in the context of community health needs assessments.
- Summarize the steps involved in performing needs assessments.
- Examine a community's health needs by examining its assets, capacities, and health determinants.
- Examine how cultural values and practices impact policies and programs.
- Explain considerations with respect to culture and values which should be made when developing public health policies and programs.
- Assess cultural values and practices during the design of a public health policy or program.
- Explain what is meant by "equitable and effective health care."
- Recognize the features of environments that are favourable to health.
- Recognize the term "social policies" as it relates to health.
- Explain the dimensions of policy implementation.
- Discuss how policies may ensure an equal and effective health care environment that favours a healthy setting.
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Students mustView
Read page 19. (3 minutes)
CDC - 2019
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Students mustView
Read the entire article. (6 minutes)
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency - 2022
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Students mustView
Read the entire webpage. (14 minutes)
Ready.gov - 2021
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Students mustView
Read the section "What are the Determinants of Health?" (2 minutes)
WHO - 2017
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Students mustView
Read the section "WHAT DO WE MEAN BY NEEDS AND RESOURCES?" (3 minutes)
Community Tool Box - 2021
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Students mustView
Read the section "The Various Meanings of Community and Community Capacity Building." (5 minutes)
Sage Journals - 2012
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Students mustView
Read Sections 10.6 and 10.8. (45 minutes)
WHO - 2020
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Students mustView
Read the content under the heading "Section I: Understanding culture, health and well-being" on pages 1-5. (15 minutes)
WHO - 2015
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Students mustView
Read the content under the heading "4. Preliminary Understandings of the Role of National Culture in Shaping Public Policy" on pages 19-24. (23 minutes)
Australian National University - 2014
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Students mustView
Read the entire webpage. (9 minutes)
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine - 2021
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Students mustView
Read the entire page. (32 minutes)
NCBI and National Academy of Sciences - 2013
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Students mustView
Read the section "Health-related Policies." (2 minutes)
CDC - 2015
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Students mustView
Read pages 40-45: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION DIMENSIONS. (19 minutes)
African Journal of Public Affairs - 2012
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Peer Activity 8 - Needs Assessment (240 minutes) Forum
You will choose a target population in your setting and assess the needs, assets, and capacities within the population. Then, you will explain how the needs assessment considers cultural values and practices and discuss how policies can be used to ensure equity in health and favorable environments within the population.
Instructions:
Step 1: Review and Identify
Review the learning resources on “Steps for conducting a needs assessment,” “Culture Matters: using a cultural context of health approach to enhance policy-making” and “Human rights and health.”
Identify a population and a specific health issue in your setting that you would prefer to cover in this assessment. Remember to consider their cultural values and practices.
Step 2: Assess and Write
Write an 800-1200 words assessment about your target population. Include the following:
An introduction to the selected population and health issue
Provide a very brief rationale for the selection of both
What health determinants of the community are related to your selected health issue?
Considering a public health response to your selected health issue, assess:
What are the community’s healthcare assets?
What are the community’s healthcare needs?
What are the community’s healthcare capacities?
Explain how cultural values and practices of the population relate to:
The emergence/prevalence of the health issue
The design and implementation of policies and programs to address the health issue
Make sure that your assessment includes both potential challenges and opportunities that stem from your population’s cultural values and practices
Outline how policies can help to ensure equity and environments favorable to health while keeping in mind cultural values and practices
Step 3: Share
To share your work, click on the “Add a new discussion topic” button under this post and paste your work in the “Message” box. “Post to forum.” Make sure to reference others’ intellectual property when necessary. All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. For further instructions, see the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library: APA citation resource (N.B. references are excluded from word counts).
OPTIONAL Step 4: Interact (10 minutes)
If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”