: Community needs assessment

You have just been employed as a Health Promotion Officer at a Community Health Service and have been given the task of developing a list of priorities that you will be working on for the next year.

Using sources of socio-economic, environmental and epidemiological data, prepare a needs assessment for your community. These sources will need to be properly referenced. You must provide the rationale for the methodology of your needs assessment – i.e. the theoretical basis for the sources of information and for whom you would speak to/target.

Prepare a report of 1400 words identifying your priority areas with supporting evidence and your rationale