(1) Study Guide Solutions
Primary role of needs assessment - ANSWER✔✔-to gather information to
determine what health education activities are appropriate in a given
setting
area of responsibility I - ANSWER✔✔-assess needs, assets, and capacity for
health education
Health problem - ANSWER✔✔-potential or real threat to physical or
emotional well-being
Needs assessment - ANSWER✔✔-systematic, planned collection of
information about the health knowledge, perceptions, attitudes,
motivations, and practices of individuals or groups and the quality of the
socioeconomic environment in which they live. Measures the gaps between
what is an what ought to be.
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, Primary data - ANSWER✔✔-data gathered by the health education
specialist directly from or about the individual or population of interest.
Collected from means by surveys, interviews, focus groups, direct
observations.
secondary data - ANSWER✔✔-data that are already have been collected by
others that may or may not be directly gathered from the individual or
population being assessed. Existing research, US Ceneus, Vital Records,
Disease Registries.
stakeholders - ANSWER✔✔-involved in program operations as program
managers, program staff, partners, funding agencies, coalition members or
those served or affected by the program/project including patients, clients,
advocacy groups and community members. Those who affect change or are
affected by it
service needs - ANSWER✔✔-those things health professionals believe a
given population must have or be able to do in order to resolve a health
problem
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