Health Needs Assessment Report

Health Needs Assessment Report Assignment help

The Assessment requires you to produce a health needs assessment (HNA) report for a particular
population in a chosen local area. You have to identify, examine and analyse the health needs of a
particular population in relation to relevant health determinants and current healthcare service
provision within a particular area (local authority) and then develop a critical health needs
assessment. Interpret and discuss the health needs and , current service provision, using these as
the evidence-base for drawing local area priorities and recommendations for intervention service
design, planning, development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation in relation to the health needs
of the respective population. Whilst you develop your work from existing HNA and public health
reports, think of your work as the latest and most updated evidence-based HNA report prepared
for (or required by) commissioners in the local area to commission healthcare services for the
chosen population. In the Report, you should clearly underline the health needs of the chosen
population and through your suggested priorities and recommendations for service provision,
show how these should be met. Your priorities and recommendations should take into account that
your Report is to be considered as the latest HNA for the chosen population in the chosen local
area. Therefore, this should also take into consideration the challenges facing the local authority
and how these can be negotiated in order to implement your HNA more effectively in the local
area in relation to the chosen population. As such, the Report priorities and recommendations
provide the base for a comprehensive discussion on “how to make it happen” in the future.
The Report should clearly discuss the epidemiologic context of health problem/s and the health
needs of the chosen population including the current service provision and utilisation by the
population. This should underline and discuss clearly the health inequalities that exist and their
determinants in relation to the chosen population, including issues relevant to service equity.
Think of what should be the local priorities for commissioners and other local area stakeholders
with interest in the HNA in relation to the chosen population. Thus, the Report’s “how to make it
happen” should show how the local area priorities can be achieved.