Health Needs Assessment Tools Currently in Use
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- Health Needs Assessment Tools currently in use Josephine M Green (Professor of Psychosocial reproductive health)
Mother and Infant Research Unit (MIRU) University of York
June 2008
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Table of Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Introduction.......................................................................................................... 3 Common Assessment Framework (CAF) ............................................................ 4 Derby City Public Health Needs Assessment Tool .............................................. 6 Tynedale Health Needs Assessment Tool (THNAT) ........................................... 6 Kirklees Health Needs Assessment .................................................................... 7 Universal Needs Assessment (UNA)................................................................... 9 Conclusions......................................................................................................... 9 References ........................................................................................................ 10
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Introduction
In the debate as to how to identify those families who require additional services because their children are at risk of poor outcomes, research attention has focused on whether Health Visitors should use structured assessment tools or rely on unstructured assessments and professional judgement to target their resources appropriately. In a review of clinical practice guidelines used to identify families requiring increased Health Visitor support, Appleton (1997) analysed 77 separate guidelines from 67 community NHS trusts. The guidelines ranged between professional judgement only, an aide memoire for risk assessment, through lists of risk factors and risk indices to checklists and screening tools
PREview Literature Review
- Health Needs Assessment Tools currently in use Josephine M Green (Professor of Psychosocial reproductive health)
Mother and Infant Research Unit (MIRU) University of York
June 2008
PREview planning resources © 2011 ChiMat
www.chimat.org.uk/preview
Table of Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Introduction.......................................................................................................... 3 Common Assessment Framework (CAF) ............................................................ 4 Derby City Public Health Needs Assessment Tool .............................................. 6 Tynedale Health Needs Assessment Tool (THNAT) ........................................... 6 Kirklees Health Needs Assessment .................................................................... 7 Universal Needs Assessment (UNA)................................................................... 9 Conclusions......................................................................................................... 9 References ........................................................................................................ 10
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Introduction
In the debate as to how to identify those families who require additional services because their children are at risk of poor outcomes, research attention has focused on whether Health Visitors should use structured assessment tools or rely on unstructured assessments and professional judgement to target their resources appropriately. In a review of clinical practice guidelines used to identify families requiring increased Health Visitor support, Appleton (1997) analysed 77 separate guidelines from 67 community NHS trusts. The guidelines ranged between professional judgement only, an aide memoire for risk assessment, through lists of risk factors and risk indices to checklists and screening tools
References: Appleton JV (1997) Establishing the validity and reliability of clinical practice guidelines used to identify families requiring increased Health Visitor support Public Health, 111: 107-113. Appleton Jane V, Cowley Sarah (2004) The guideline contradiction: Health Visitors’ use of formal guidelines for identifying and assessing families in need International Journal of Nursing Studies, 41: 785-797. Cowley Sarah, Houston Anna M (2003) A strucrtured health needs assessment tool: acceptability and effectiveness for health visiting Journal of Advanced Nursing, 43 (1): 82-92. Mitcheson Jan, Cowley Sarah (2003) Empowerment or control? An analysis of the extent to which client participation is enabled during Health Visitor/client interactions using a structured health needs assessment tool International Journal of Nursing Studies 40: 413-426 Page 10 of 10 PREview Planning Resources © 2011 ChiMat PREview Planning Resources © 2011 ChiMat Page 10 of 10