Needs assessment
Public Health Needs Assessments
Assessing the health needs of specific populations and communities to support prevention, commissioning and public health planning.
Purpose
Focused public health needs assessments examine a specific population, condition or service area in depth, providing the evidence needed to target prevention, design services and commission effectively.
This page describes an assignment type we undertake. It is not a record of a completed client project.
Potential areas of analysis
- Population health profiles
- Health inequalities
- Prevention and early intervention
- Health behaviours
- Access to services
- Unmet need
- Community-level variation
- Future demand and priorities
Questions we help you answer
- What is the scale and distribution of need in the population of interest?
- Which groups face the greatest barriers to access?
- Where is need currently unmet?
- What prevention and early intervention opportunities exist?
What you receive
- Needs assessment report
- Population health profile
- Service gap analysis
- Commissioning recommendations
Our full approach, evidence sources and methods are set out in a tailored proposal.
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