Community Assessment

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Community Assessment
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Factors Affecting Nutritional Status of a
Community
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Why Do a Community Assessment?
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Reasons for a Community Assessment p. 204

• Identify groups at nutritional risk
• Identify most critical needs within a community
• Determine if existing resources/programs meet
  needs
• Tailor a program to a specific population
• Provide baseline data for developing a program
  and for later evaluations

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Steps in a Community Assessment

• Define the community
• Determine the purpose of the assessment
• Set goals and objectives for the assessment
• Define the target group
• Define the types of data needed
• Collect and analyze data
• Draw conclusions

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Types of data

• See handout and/or table 7-1, pages 205-206