I recently requested help from the list with Health needs assessment,
using rapid evaluation methods. I got a fantastic response!
Many thanks to all those who replied. Here is a summary. The paper is
almost completely drafted...
I hope that I have included all the sources:
Cheers
Terry Aspray
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Chris Fitch and others wrote suggesting
Beebe, J. Basic concepts and techniques of rapid appraisal. Human
Organisation 54(1):42-51, 1995.
Manderson, L. and Aaby P. An Epidemic in the Field? Rapid Assessment
Procedures and Health Research. Social Science and Medicine 35 (7):
839-850, 1992.
and their recent work for WHO:
World Health Organization - Programme on Substance Abuse (1997). The
Rapid Assessment and Response Guide on Injecting Drug Use (eds
Stimson, G.V., Fitch, C., and Rhodes, T.). Geneva: World Health
Organization.
also
the Institute of Development Studies website at:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/ids.html
and the rap guide produced by Susan Scrimshaw at UCLA
Leigh-Ann Topfer and others suggested the series issued by the Aga
Khan Foundation as well as workk from Ottawa
callnumberRA 441.5 .A32 1993c
titlAssessing community health needs and coverage.
Module 2. Facilitator's guide
authorsHilton, M.
corporationAga Khan Foundation
Aga Khan University
Aga Khan Health Services
University Research Corporation Center for
Human Services
placeWashington, DC
publisherAga Khan Foundation
date1993
pages 60 p.
seriesPrimary health care management advancement
programme
ISBN 1-882839-09-9
callnumberRA 441.5 .A32 1993l
titlAssessing community health needs and coverage.
Module 2. User's guide
authorsReynolds, J.
corporationAga Khan Foundation
Aga Khan University
Aga Khan Health Services
University Research Corporation Center for
Human Services
placeWashington, DC
publisherAga Khan Foundation
date1993
pages 228 p.
seriesPrimary health care management advancement
programme
ISBN 1-882839-01-3
callnumberRA 441.5 .A32 1993b
titlAssessing information needs. Module 1.
Facilitator's guide
authorsMillar, M.
corporationAga Khan Foundation
Aga Khan University
Aga Khan Health Services
University Research Corporation Center for
Human Services
placeWashington, DC
publisherAga Khan Foundation
date1993
pages 56 p.
seriesPrimary health care management advancement
programme
ISBN 1-882839-08-0
ID2064
callnumberRA 441.5 .A32 1993k
titlAssessing information needs. Module 1. User's
guide
authorsReynolds, J.
corporationAga Khan Foundation
Aga Khan University
Aga Khan Health Services
University Research Corporation Center for
Human Services
placeWashington, DC
publisherAga Khan Foundation
date1993
pages 54 p.
seriesPrimary health care management advancement
programme
ISBN 1-882839-00-5
callnumberR 855.3 .H42 1995
titlHealth technology assessment: A needs-based
approach
authorsBergevin, Y., editor
placeOttawa
publisherInternational Development Research Centre
date1995
pages 136 p.
callnumberRA 652.2 .H42 1994
titlHealth care needs assessment: The
epidemiologically based needs assessment
reviews
authorsStevens, A., editor
Raftery, J., editor
corporationWessex Institute of Public Health Medicine
United Kingdom. National Health Service.
Management Executive
placeOxford, UK
publisherRadcliffe Medical Press
date1994
pages 2 v.
ISBN 1-85775-047-0 (2 vol. set)
also HealthSTAR database to be found at
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
Lesley duff suggested
The Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau database which has
all kinds of handy references about anthropological/development type
issues. Psychlit and Sociofile are also handy dbases but available, I
think, through BIDS. You could also try CINHAL which is useful for
issues related to nursing, thus includes needs assessment.
'Listening to local voices' a paper from in BMJ was suggested by
Trish Greenhalgh
The book 'Researching the people's health' edited by Jennie Popay and
Gareth Williams (1994) (Routledge) has a good chapter on rapid
appraisal methodologies: 'Prioritizing needs with communities' written
by Bie Nio Ong and Gerry Humphris. Suggested Rena Papadopoulos
Pedro Gallo suggested
1.- Stevens and Raftery manuals. Health care Needs Assessment, in
Radcliffe Medical Press.
2.- Percy-Smith work on Needs Assessment and Public
Policy (1996-Oxford University Press).
3.- Many other titles are available from libraries including the
lastest by Soriano (1995) "Conducting Needs Assessments" in SAGE, or
Witkin&Altschuld (1995) "Planning and conducting needs assessment"
also in SAGE.
Rudy Zimmer suggested
main researchers in this area are stationed at Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health ( _ Gray, Carl Taylor, etc.).
There is a review in a medline journal under "rapid epidemiologic
appraisal" from the US and in the early 1990s.
[Other folks]First Nations people and CIDA (Canadian
International Development Agency) or CSIH (Canadian Society of
International Health). You may want to check the International Centre
or the Department of International Development (DID) at the University
of Calgary where they have done a considerable amount of PAR/RAP, etc
in Western Nepal and Gharwal (India).
Ronald Ingle suggests we try
Lee T, Price M,Wynne J. A comprehensive evaluation of a rural
tuberculosis control programme in the south-eastern Transvaal:
implications for health service planning. South Afr J Epidemiol Infect
1995;10(1):22-28.
Correspondence to Dr T Lee,Centre for Health Policy, Department of
Community Health, University of Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York
Road, Parktown, 2193 South Africa. Fax 011(area) 642 0733.
Vicki Talor found an article that may help:
East Africa Medical Journal 1995: 72 (1): 15-18. It contains
referencs that may also be useful.
John Kevany suggested accounts of two of projects have been
published in ADMINISTRATION, the quarterly journal of the Institute
of Public Administration [IPA], Dublin.
Community Participation in Primary Health care. ADMINISTRATION
[1994] vol. 42, no.2, pp.170-182. -
Getting Control of the Planning Process: a Community Initiative in
Health Care Planning, ADMINISTRATION [1998], vol.46, no.2, pp.65-76.
A book on Irish health services entitled: "Towards A Healthier
Future?",and a more detailled account of the peri-urban project
avaialable from the Department on request [contact Ailbhe Mealy: tel.
353 1 608 1087].
Mark Newman suggests
Annett H Rifkin S 1992 Guidelines for rapid appraisal to assess
community health needs. WHO. Geneva.
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Dr Terry Aspray
Wellcome Laboratories
Royal Victoria Infirmary
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 4LP
Great Britain
tel +44 (0)191 222 5407 fax +44 (0)191 261 1763
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