The Next Steps: Identifying and Planning for the Health Needs of Underserved Populations
Author: Program Evaluation Subgroup
Date Published: 1990
The Work Group on Community Health Services is funded by the ?Bureau of Health are Delivery and Assistance (BHCDA) of the Department of Health and human Services. It consists of primary care experts from community and migrant health centers, academia, and public health organizations. The Work Group is dedicated to developing a clinical management and evaluation strategy that will enhance the effectiveness of community primary care services, increase community involvement in service planning and delivery, and promote access for medically underserved populations. An effective strategy evaluation will facilitate the transition from a traditional medical practice focuses on the patient-provider interaction to a form of health practice focused on community needs and community health system interaction. This form of health practice emphasizes health management and bases program planning and evaluation on an epidemiological understanding of the community's needs and problems. In order to achieve these goals, a major part of the Work Group's efforts will be devoted to producing a needs assessment compendium that can be used to link community health care center management, program planning, and evaluation to an understanding of the community's needs and problems. The sessions on "Winning The Numbers Game" presents an interim step in the Work Group's needs assessment activities. In order to provide a brief description of the range of information that will be provided in the Work Group on Community Health Services' needs assessment compendium, several of the major subjects that will be covered are outlined in the succeeding pages.
Date Published: 1990
The Work Group on Community Health Services is funded by the ?Bureau of Health are Delivery and Assistance (BHCDA) of the Department of Health and human Services. It consists of primary care experts from community and migrant health centers, academia, and public health organizations. The Work Group is dedicated to developing a clinical management and evaluation strategy that will enhance the effectiveness of community primary care services, increase community involvement in service planning and delivery, and promote access for medically underserved populations. An effective strategy evaluation will facilitate the transition from a traditional medical practice focuses on the patient-provider interaction to a form of health practice focused on community needs and community health system interaction. This form of health practice emphasizes health management and bases program planning and evaluation on an epidemiological understanding of the community's needs and problems. In order to achieve these goals, a major part of the Work Group's efforts will be devoted to producing a needs assessment compendium that can be used to link community health care center management, program planning, and evaluation to an understanding of the community's needs and problems. The sessions on "Winning The Numbers Game" presents an interim step in the Work Group's needs assessment activities. In order to provide a brief description of the range of information that will be provided in the Work Group on Community Health Services' needs assessment compendium, several of the major subjects that will be covered are outlined in the succeeding pages.
