Assessing Community Health Needs in a Rural Area: Determining Best Practices to Meet New Affordable Care Act Requirements
Author(s)
Schafer, Elizabeth
Dawson, Rebecca S.
Date Issued
May 13, 2015
Abstract
We conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature focused on conducting community health needs assessments and highlighted the necessary steps to conduct a community health needs assessment in a rural community. From the literature review, we identified three steps necessary— establishing partnerships, using a mixed methods approach, and disseminating results—to successfully conduct a needs assessment that fitted the definition of the Affordable Care Act. These three steps have been used as a guide for developing a protocol for conducting a community health needs assessment in Meadville, PA. We detail our preliminary project protocol here.
Journal
Health
Department
Biology
Global Health Studies
Citation
Schafer, E. and Dawson, R.S. (2015) Assessing Community Health Needs in a Rural Area: Determining Best Practices to Meet New Affordable Care Act Requirements. Health, 7, 542-546. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/health.2015.75064
Publisher
Scientific Research Publishing
Version of Article
Published article
DOI
10.4236/health.2015.75064
ISSN
1949-4998
1949-5005
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