Environmental Science Question
Conducting a Needs Assessment
Using the Internet, select two completed needs assessments and compare and contrast the steps and results used to carry-out the assessments.
Write a 4 to 5 page paper that addresses the following:
- What is measured in assessing health?
- Describe the two assessments you chose. What data was collected in the needs assessments?
- Identify and discuss the theory(ies) that influenced these needs assessments.
- How were the results of the needs assessments used in program planning and design?
Be sure to support your statements with scholarly references and appropriate examples.
*PLEASE BE VERY DETAILED!!! This Professor likes papers that are very detailed and make sure that when using APA, you do it correctly (she’s very nit picky! smh)).
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Requirements: 4-5
Answer preview
Needs assessments are increasingly becoming a popular approach for dealing with challenges affecting population groups. Within community contexts, such assessments allow stakeholders to identify the various needs of community members and their strengths, weaknesses, and resources available within the community (Cekada, 2011). By conducting needs assessments, stakeholders can come up with effective strategies to address the challenges and needs affecting the whole community or a specific population group within the community such as the youth, women, disabled, or the elderly (Cekada, 2011). As such, understanding what a needs assessment is, the theories that inform the use of this concept, what it measures and how to collect pertinent data, and finally, how the results from the needs assessment are used to plan and design programs aimed at addressing the identified needs is very important.
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