Criteria for Evaluating Evidence on Public Health Interventions
Drawing on and critically appraising varying levels and sources of data, perform a health needs assessment of a defined population. Select a health need and identify a strategy to address this need. Using the data you have collated, provide a rationale for your strategy that could be used to influence potential funders.
This report is about the population of the practice base, Cove and Southwood Ward in Farnborough, Rushmoor District .Rushmoor is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, South East England. The Health need assessment will profile the ward and compare it with Rushmoor local authority , Hampshire, South East region and England. The report is expected to present an independent overview of one of the key health issues affecting the population identified as alcohol. Profiling will focus on five data sets: Demography, Ethnicity, Socio-economic, Mobidity and Mortality .
Rushmoor Borough Council occupies the north-east part of Hampshire and is part of the commuter belt into London(Figure 1). It covers the towns of Aldershot and Farnborough(Figure2) It is one of thirteen districts in Hampshire( Figure3) used for comparisons in South East Region.
Figure 1: A map of Hampshire with Rushmoor Borough highlighted
(Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right
Figure 2 Rushmoor Borough.
(Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right)
Source: Ordnance Survey data 2012
Health is defined by WHO (1946) as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Given the dynamic concepts of health and well- being, there is variation in interpretation or perception on individually as it is influenced by life experiences amongst other factors(Donaldson and Scally 2009). Factors that affect health are identified with a particular focus on medicine and inequalities in health( Tones and Green
This report is about the population of the practice base, Cove and Southwood Ward in Farnborough, Rushmoor District .Rushmoor is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, South East England. The Health need assessment will profile the ward and compare it with Rushmoor local authority , Hampshire, South East region and England. The report is expected to present an independent overview of one of the key health issues affecting the population identified as alcohol. Profiling will focus on five data sets: Demography, Ethnicity, Socio-economic, Mobidity and Mortality .
Rushmoor Borough Council occupies the north-east part of Hampshire and is part of the commuter belt into London(Figure 1). It covers the towns of Aldershot and Farnborough(Figure2) It is one of thirteen districts in Hampshire( Figure3) used for comparisons in South East Region.
Figure 1: A map of Hampshire with Rushmoor Borough highlighted
(Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right
Figure 2 Rushmoor Borough.
(Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right)
Source: Ordnance Survey data 2012
Health is defined by WHO (1946) as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Given the dynamic concepts of health and well- being, there is variation in interpretation or perception on individually as it is influenced by life experiences amongst other factors(Donaldson and Scally 2009). Factors that affect health are identified with a particular focus on medicine and inequalities in health( Tones and Green