Accessing the health need in a malaria endemic districts can be challenging, normally the health issues exist along with other health and socio-economic problems like poverty, unemployment and poor housing. Despite the benefits of the health need assessment (HNA), implementation of this tool is a difficult task the health professional for various reasons.
First, in remoting settings, it is difficult to access relevant and reliable that information about malaria. Since there is no proper reporting system, hospital records are usually incomplete and the patient treated in hospitals are not representative of the population; thus, using such records is likely to bias HNA results. Besides, national censuses are the most reliable source of data in such setting but are carried out once in every ten years …show more content…
However, this calls for allocating of enough resources for the process and training of staff in data collection, sampling technics, conducting of interviews and culture sensitivity to enable them to carry out the tasks effectively. Training of staff will ensure that data collected in accurate and reliable and generalizable depending on the sampling size (Walley and Wright, 2010). Secondly, a number of approaches may be used interviews combined with focused group discussions and key informants interviews. This approach allows the researcher to gain a clear insist into the health needs of the community (Naidoo and Wills, 2009; Walley and Wright, 2010).
Though health need assessment are important implementation is challenge in remote
First, in remoting settings, it is difficult to access relevant and reliable that information about malaria. Since there is no proper reporting system, hospital records are usually incomplete and the patient treated in hospitals are not representative of the population; thus, using such records is likely to bias HNA results. Besides, national censuses are the most reliable source of data in such setting but are carried out once in every ten years …show more content…
However, this calls for allocating of enough resources for the process and training of staff in data collection, sampling technics, conducting of interviews and culture sensitivity to enable them to carry out the tasks effectively. Training of staff will ensure that data collected in accurate and reliable and generalizable depending on the sampling size (Walley and Wright, 2010). Secondly, a number of approaches may be used interviews combined with focused group discussions and key informants interviews. This approach allows the researcher to gain a clear insist into the health needs of the community (Naidoo and Wills, 2009; Walley and Wright, 2010).
Though health need assessment are important implementation is challenge in remote