Community Assessment

Community assessment is a tool, which enables the proper identification of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and the threats that are prevailing in a community. It also provides relevant information that assists a health care provider to work in sync with a community and simultaneously address their problems or needs. Community assessment also serves as intervention, where it promotes community participation in the assessment process, ownership of the findings and their engagement with the subsequent outcomes. These findings of the ownership facilitate overall community growth and development. (McMurray & Clendon, 2015). The Community Assessment helps in the development of the community health for the betterment of the mankind. This

In order to collect information, few approaches must be religiously cited. These include proper description of the community via geographic maps and census information from the local administration. Local views must also be taken into consideration while collecting the data and this can be done by approaching the local individuals or groups, collecting health views from particular professions like teachers, dentists, pharmacists, social/community workers and religious leaders. After individual surveys, there come the local surveys. Local surveys can be time consuming and in order to save time, this can be done via citing the disease registers used for chronic illness like diarrhea, diabetes, cholera, yellow fever etc. However, if conducting patient based surveys, confidentiality must be maintained (Pitts et al.,

The family health assessment is a specialized nursing tool that has three distinct aims: access to the family health needs in collaboration to the family, identification of health services required by the company, proper gain of information for the assessing the accurate need at the community level (Clark, 2015).

Step 3: Assessment of the information

The information collected in step 2 must be analyzed to plan, implement and evaluate the health service. For the proper analysis of the collected information a definitive approach must be undertaken. This includes a rigorous comparative study. Comparison of the selected group of population with a larger population, to ascertain the health issues and the disease rate. This is followed by the comparative data analysis with the previous year data, identifying significant gaps and identification of the positive features as well as the prevailing alarming health problems in the community (Bretan et al., 2013).

To identify the significant gaps, statistical analysis must be conducted and the portion that must be highlighted on the statistical analysis