CONCEPT 5: COMMUNITY DIAGNOSIS
This concept is taken from module 5 of block 2 entitled “introduction to public health nursing”
5.1 Significance of the Concept
This concept “community diagnosis is very important because it helps to find the common problems or diseases, which are troublesome to the people and are easily preventable in the community, it is a tool to disclose hidden problems that are not visible to the community people but are being affected by them, it helps to impart knowledge and attitudes to turnover people’s problems towards the height of solution. Community diagnosis can be a pioneer step for betterment of rural community health. It helps to access the group of underprivileged people who are unable to use the available facilities …show more content…
It helps health workers to convince funders both local and international governmental and non-governmental to provide them with needed resources. Community diagnosis affrids health workers opportunity to convince policy makers and other decision-makers to provide their community with needed programmes or services. Since there is always slwitage of resources to fund health care services, especially in developing countries, community diagnosis helps to gain community members’ support of health improvement solutions. It affords health workers to better understand know community public health issues, to identify new community public health issues, to lean more about the priorities, assets and concerns of community members and to offer solutions for addressing unmet health needs.
5.5 Current Research Community diagnosis is a comprehensive assessment of health status of the community in relation to its social physical and biological environment (Olise 2007). The purpose of community diagnosis is to define existing problems, determine available resources and set priorities for planning, implementing and evaluating health action, by and for the community.
According to Sulav, (2015), Community diagnosis is a means of examining aggregate and social statistics in addition to the knowledge of the local situation, in order to determine the health needs …show more content…
It is the basis for developing and implementing community nursing interventions and strategies (Susita, 2015). According to Haglund (2008), Community diagnosis deals with a process having district levels: I descriptive, II Analytical and III action programs. The first level, description contains four dimensions: a community profile, a health risk profile, a health profile and a health service profile. The analytical level deluges into organizational capabilities. A guiding principle for this level stresses the importance of community involvement action (level III) is based on lay peoples’ further involvement with the control and responsibility of brealth
This concept is taken from module 5 of block 2 entitled “introduction to public health nursing”
5.1 Significance of the Concept
This concept “community diagnosis is very important because it helps to find the common problems or diseases, which are troublesome to the people and are easily preventable in the community, it is a tool to disclose hidden problems that are not visible to the community people but are being affected by them, it helps to impart knowledge and attitudes to turnover people’s problems towards the height of solution. Community diagnosis can be a pioneer step for betterment of rural community health. It helps to access the group of underprivileged people who are unable to use the available facilities …show more content…
It helps health workers to convince funders both local and international governmental and non-governmental to provide them with needed resources. Community diagnosis affrids health workers opportunity to convince policy makers and other decision-makers to provide their community with needed programmes or services. Since there is always slwitage of resources to fund health care services, especially in developing countries, community diagnosis helps to gain community members’ support of health improvement solutions. It affords health workers to better understand know community public health issues, to identify new community public health issues, to lean more about the priorities, assets and concerns of community members and to offer solutions for addressing unmet health needs.
5.5 Current Research Community diagnosis is a comprehensive assessment of health status of the community in relation to its social physical and biological environment (Olise 2007). The purpose of community diagnosis is to define existing problems, determine available resources and set priorities for planning, implementing and evaluating health action, by and for the community.
According to Sulav, (2015), Community diagnosis is a means of examining aggregate and social statistics in addition to the knowledge of the local situation, in order to determine the health needs …show more content…
It is the basis for developing and implementing community nursing interventions and strategies (Susita, 2015). According to Haglund (2008), Community diagnosis deals with a process having district levels: I descriptive, II Analytical and III action programs. The first level, description contains four dimensions: a community profile, a health risk profile, a health profile and a health service profile. The analytical level deluges into organizational capabilities. A guiding principle for this level stresses the importance of community involvement action (level III) is based on lay peoples’ further involvement with the control and responsibility of brealth