Run a community health needs assessment
A step-by-step plan to assess a population's health needs, set priorities, and turn findings into a program and evaluation plan.
The prompt
Help me plan and run a community health needs assessment and turn it into a program plan.
Organization: [e.g. "nonprofit hospital", "public health department", "community clinic"]
Community and population: [GEOGRAPHY, demographics, groups of interest]
Why we're doing this: [regulatory requirement, funding, new program, strategic plan]
Data available: [health statistics, hospital or clinic data, prior assessments, surveys]
Partners: [public health, schools, community organizations]
Timeline and resources: [MONTHS, staff, budget]
Give me:
1. Project plan: phases from scoping to publication, with a timeline and roles.
2. Data plan: secondary data sources to pull (types, not invented figures), and primary data methods (community surveys, focus groups, key informant interviews), with how to reach underrepresented groups.
3. Equity lens: how to look at differences by income, race and ethnicity, language, disability, and geography, and social determinants of health (housing, food, transport).
4. Prioritization method: criteria (size, severity, inequity, community concern, feasibility, existing resources) and a scoring matrix.
5. From priorities to programs: for each priority, goals, SMART objectives, evidence-based strategy options, partners, and resources.
6. Monitoring and evaluation: a logic model (inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes) and indicators for each objective.
7. Report outline and a plan to share results with the community.
Use only data I provide; mark gaps [ADD DATA]. If this is a regulatory requirement (e.g. for US tax-exempt hospitals), list requirements to confirm with compliance [CONFIRM CURRENT RULES]. Protect personal data in survey and interview records.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- GEOGRAPHY, demographics, groups of interest
- regulatory requirement, funding, new program, strategic plan
- public health, schools, community organizations
- MONTHS, staff, budget
- ADD DATA
- CONFIRM CURRENT RULES
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