Health Needs Assessment for New Zealand

Health Needs Assessment for New Zealand - An Overview and Guide
Date of publication: December 2000

This document is a guide for District Health Boards (DHBs) on how to undertake health needs assessments of their population. The document also has clear implications for the Ministry of Health in its role of overseeing national datasets and facilitating effective use of information. For example, if individual DHBs want to access a particular data source, it may be more cost effective for the Ministry of Health to undertake this on their behalf. It will:

describe what health needs assessments are
describe how they fit into the DHB planning cycle
outline how to collect appropriate data
suggest sources for data
suggest ways to analyse the collected data
identify prioritisation frameworks.

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