Health Needs Assessment Theory and Practice

Author: Robinson, Jane; Elkan, Ruth

Publication Year: 1996

Contents

Who assesses health needs?
Key perspectives on the assessment of health needs
Defining and measuring health
Health needs assessment: the approach of central government
Inequalities in health and health care
Epidemiological approaches to health needs assessment
Economics, utilitarianism and health needs assessment
Screening: health needs assessment and the evaluation of services
A framework for local health needs assessment
Local health needs assessment: reports of the director of public health
Health by profiling by nurses
Conclusions and implications for nurses
References
Index

Format	Print
Keywords	health needs
Publisher	Churchill Livingstone Medical Division of Pearson Professional Limited
Classification	health needs
Edition	First
ISBN	0-443-05233-6
Pages	250
Categories:	Books