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Assessment Task

Needs assessments are crucial in program design, implementation and evaluation in public health, as they form the foundation for the evidence-based approach required to design and evaluate relevant, credible and contextually appropriate programs.

In this assessment, each individual in the group will need to perform a needs assessment associated with your group’s chosen health challenge/target population. To generate a comprehensive understanding of the community need, the group discussion should inform the different areas that each student will focus on under a particular public health theme. Each individual will submit a 1,000 word (+/–10%) needs assessment report.

Assessment Flow Chart

Please ensure that you read the Portfolio Assessment Brief before completing this assessment.

1. Needs Assessment (Individual)

2. Part A: Objectives, Strategies and Logic

Model (Group)

2. Part B: Program Planning,

Implementation and

Evaluation Plan (Group)

3. Reflection: Program Planning Process and

Collaboration

(Individual)

Context

If health services are to respond to the changing health needs of their local populations, planners and managers need useful and timely information about the health status of target populations.

Task Instructions

Your needs assessment report should include the following information:

1. Background

This should include:

• A clear title of your allocated problem/topic.
• A brief literature review of the current literature that outlines the types of needs (e.g., normative, expressed, comparative or felt) in your chosen
• A brief discussion about the need analysis and methodological approaches (e.g., quantitative and qualitative research and systematic reviews) you have chosen to

2. Prioritisation of Needs

• In this section, you will prioritise the needs based on the current evidence reviewed and develop and present a problem and solution

3. Justification

In this section, you need to justify your choice of priorities and outline how your needs assessment will benefit the population.

4. SWOT Analysis

In this section, you will need to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of your needs assessment:

1. Strengths: What unique needs did you identify that others have not?
2. Weaknesses: What are some things that your needs assessment failed to consider?
3. Opportunities: What are some areas in which you could thrive that are not currently taken advantage of?
4. Threats: What are some external factors (e.g., competitors, consumer demand or economic conditions) that could make it more difficult for you to do a needs assessment?

Format Parameters

All assessments should include a cover page that states your name, student number, assessment number and name and the word count

Assessment should be formatted in 12-point Arial font with 1.5 line spacing.

Referencing

It is essential that you use appropriate APA style for citing and referencing research. Please see more information on referencing in the Academic Skills webpage.

Submission Instructions

Submit your Assessment via the Assessment 1 link in the main navigation menu in the

PUBH6007: Program Design, Implementation and Evaluation Blackboard portal.

Your learning facilitator will provide feedback via the Grade Centre in the LMS portal. Feedback can be viewed in My Grades.

Academic Integrity

All students are responsible for ensuring that all work submitted is their own and is appropriately referenced and academically written according to the Academic Writing Guide. Students also need Students also need to have read and be aware of the Torrens University Australia Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure and subsequent penalties for academic misconduct. These are viewable online.