Techniques for needs assessment : state experiences and suggested approaches in response to Title XX of the Social security act /

Companion vol. to the author's State experiences in social services planning.

Research needs assessment : livestock manure management in the United States /

Issued Aug. 1979.

Young native Americans and their families : educational needs assessment and recommendations : final report /

Mode of access: Internet.

Preparing a national housing needs assessment /

"One in its [i.e. Office of Housing and Urban Programs] series of Occasional Papers"--Fore.

Competitive enhancement and diversification needs assessment, 1996-1997.

Mode of access: Internet.

Adult education for the deaf of Illinois : a needs assessment : a project /

"Contract no. H-448."

Capital needs assessment survey results /

Responses were submitted by 383 public libraries who reported $647.4 million of capital needs for general repair work, building additions, and new building construction for the next two years.

Capital needs assessment survey results /

Responses from 499 Illinois public libraries reported capital needs of $804.5 million for general repair work, building work, building additions, and new building construction for the next two years.

Pilot groundwater protection needs assessment for Illinois American Water Company's Pekin Public Water Supply Facility number 1795040 /

"November 1992."--Cover.

An e-health needs assessment of medical residents in Cameroon

Medical residents from Yaounde I University in Cameroon are required to spend periods of time in rural or remote locations to complete their training. To determine if e-health might lessen their isolation and enhance patient care, a needs assessment of the residents was performed using a brief questionnaire (five items) about the situation in which residents found themselves outside their medical school environment. We gave the questionnaires to 45 residents. Seventeen questionnaires had been returned at the time of the site visit, a response rate of 38%. Most residents indicated that the ability to contact a mentor would have either made them feel more confident (16, or 94%) or altered their handling of recent cases (15, or 88%). All residents had access to a mobile phone, and many (11, or 65%) had used it to contact a medical colleague for guidance. A low-cost and technologically simple telemedicine solution that maximized use of mobile phone capability, provided access to medical and health-care information, and permitted exchange of images would be an appropriate response to the identified needs.

Is quality of life measurement likely to be a proxy for health needs assessment in patients with coronary artery disease?

BACKGROUND: The identification of patients' health needs is pivotal in optimising the quality of health care, increasing patient satisfaction and directing resource allocation. Health needs are complex and not so easily evaluated as health-related quality of life (HRQL), which is becoming increasingly accepted as a means of providing a more global, patient-orientated assessment of the outcome of health care interventions than the simple medical model. The potential of HRQL as a surrogate measure of healthcare needs has not been evaluated. OBJECTIVES AND METHOD: A generic (Short Form-12; SF-12) and a disease-specific questionnaire (Seattle Angina Questionnaire; SAQ) were tested for their potential to predict health needs in patients with acute coronary disease. A wide range of healthcare needs were determined using a questionnaire specifically developed for this purpose. RESULTS: With the exception of information needs, healthcare needs were highly correlated with health-related quality of life. Patients with limited enjoyment of personal interests, weak financial situation, greater dependency on others to access health services, and dissatisfaction with accommodation reported poorer HRQL (SF-12: p < 0.001; SAQ: p < 0.01). Difficulties with mobility, aids to daily living and activities requiring assistance from someone else were strongly associated with both generic and disease-specific questionnaires (SF-12: r = 0.46-0.55, p < 0.01; SAQ: r = 0.53-0.65, p < 0.001). Variables relating to quality of care and health services were more highly correlated with SAQ components (r = 0.33-0.59) than with SF-12 (r = 0.07-0.33). Overall, the disease-specific Seattle Angina Questionnaire was superior to the generic Short Form-12 in detecting healthcare needs in patients with coronary disease. Receiver-operator curves supported the sensitivity of HRQL tools in detecting health needs. CONCLUSION: Healthcare needs are complex and developing suitable questionnaires to measure these is difficult and time-consuming. Without a satisfactory means of measuring these needs, the extent to which disease impacts on health will continue to be underestimated. Further investigation on larger populations is warranted but HRQL tools appear to be a reasonable proxy for healthcare needs, as they identify the majority of needs in patients with coronary disease, an observation not previously reported in this patient group

Using Needs Assessment to Understand Continuing Disability in Patients with Enduring Mental Illness. Implications for Considerations of Service Development

Particular strengths of the MRC Needs for Care Assessment Schedule have been used to investigate the treatment status of patients with persistent psychiatric disability in ways that other needs assessment tools are unable to. One hundred and seventy-nine such patients from three settings; a private sector psychiatric hospital, two public sector day hospitals situated in the same town, and a high security hospital, were found to have a high level of need. Although there were differences between settings, overall these needs were well met in all three. The high level of persistent disability found amongst these patients could not be attributed to failure on the part of those treating them to use the best available methods, or to failures to comply or engage with treatment on the patient's part. In some two thirds of instances persistent disability was best explained by the fact that even the most suitable available treatments have to be considered only partially effective.

Towards a Vietnamese university public health nutrition framework: Needs assessment.

There is a significant need for the improvement of nutrition education in Vietnamese universities in order to better prepare health and education professionals to respond to contemporary nutrition transition problems. Strong leadership at national and ministerial levels will be required to set a clear agenda for changes in this area.

2016 Title V Needs Assessment: Executive Summary, May 2015

Since early 2014, the Iowa Department of Public Health’s (IDPH) Bureau of Family Health (BFH) and the Oral Health Center (OHC), along with partners at the University of Iowa Division of Child and Community Health (UI-DCCH) collaborated to conduct the five-year Needs Assessment (NA) for the FFY2016 Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant.