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Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion, Third Edition

Author(s): Gary D. Gilmore, MPH, PhD, MCHES, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
M. Donald Campbell, PhD, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763725990
  • ISBN-10:0763725994
  • Paperback    267 pages      © 2005
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Overview

The only text of its kind available for health and human service practitioners, the Third Edition of Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion continues to be a highly regarded practitioner’s guidebook that is used in upper division undergraduate and graduate professional preparation classes. Each one of the twelve chapters in this edition reflects practitioner involvement in needs and capacity assessments. This is truly a hands-on guidebook for those in their professional preparation phases, as well as seasoned practitioners in public health, health care, human service, and other community-based professional endeavors.

From the Foreword by Lawrence Green:

“[The authors'] combination of needs assessment and capacity assessment strategies provides practitioners with the right balance for formative evaluation and planning with community leaders who are cynical about another round of needs assessment that fails to acknowledge the strengths and assets of the community.  Capacity assessment offers an antidote to the despair that comes with identifying one’s community problems….As authors of a book on program planning, Marshall Kreuter and I are indebted to Gilmore and Campbell for the pressure their book takes off of us to provide much of the detailed description and procedures of some of the needs and capacity assessment steps in planning that this book provides. Even if we thought we could do it as well, we would be ill advised to repeat much of what is now so well presented and documented in this book.”

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Only text of its kind that focuses on needs and capacity assessment in health education and health promotion.

Provides an organizing framework to needs and capacity assessment, which has been referred to by others in the profession (e.g., James McKenzie; Lawrence Green).

Offers examples of needs and capacity assessments.

Includes case studies so that the reader can gain extensive insights into needs and capacity assessment procedures.

Offers the following helpful appendices:

Appendix A: General Health Status Inventories
Appendix B: Health Risk Appraisals
Appendix C: La Crosse Wellness Project
Appendix D: Available Health Risk Appraisals and Wellness Inventories
Appendix E: Community Capacity Assessment Inventory
Appendix F: Early Detection Procedures
Appendix G: Community Risk Estimation

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ShowTable of Contents

  Chapter  Foreword by Lawrence W. Green
  Chapter  Preface
  Chapter  About the Authors
Part  I  Introduction and Overview
  Chapter  1  Gaining a Needs and Capacity Assessment Perspective
  Chapter  2  Needs and Capacity Assessments within the Bigger Picture
Part  II  Assessments with Individuals
  Chapter  3  Single-Step Surveys
  Chapter  4  Multi-Step Surveys: Delphi
  Chapter  5  Interviewing
Part  III  Assessments with Groups
  Chapter  6  Group Participation Process: Nominal Group
  Chapter  7  Group Participation Process: Focus Group
  Chapter  8  Community-Based Needs and Capacity Assessment Processes
  Chapter  9  Technology-Supported Assessments
  Chapter  10  Large-Scale Community Assessment Strategies
Part  IV  Self-Directed Assessments
  Chapter  11  Self-Directed Assessment Inventories
  Chapter  12  Observational Self-Directed Assessments
Part  V  Case Studies and a Needs Assessment Simulation
  Chapter  Case Study Descriptions
  Chapter  Appendices
  Chapter  Index
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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Gary D. Gilmore, MPH, PhD, MCHES-University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Since 1974, Dr. Gilmore has held a joint appointment with the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse and the University of Wisconsin-Extension.  He is Professor and Director of Graduate Community Health/Public Health Programs.  His prior experiences have been in public health and preventive medicine at the Bergen County Health Department (N.J.), and at the Preventive Medicine Unit, General Leonard Wood Hospital, U.S. Army (recipient of the Army Commendation Medal in Preventive Medicine).  His training in epidemiology and public health education is through the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, with additional training in epidemiology at the New England Epidemiology Institute, Tufts University.  He is the founding and continuing Director of the first Master of Public Health Program (CEPH accredited) offered in the University of Wisconsin System.  As an inherent part of his appointment, he also directs the Community Health Programming Unit in Continuing Education and Extension (University of Wisconsin-Extension).  He has served on the American Cancer Society National Board of Directors during 1986-1996, and 1999-2002, and is the recipient of that organization’s St. George Medal for “outstanding contributions to the control of cancer.”  Dr. Gilmore received the 2001 Regents Teaching Excellence Award bestowed by the Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin System.  He also received the 1998 Award for Excellence from the University of Wisconsin-Extension.  During 1999-2000, Dr. Gilmore served as the first Fulbright Senior Scholar at the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, India.  In that capacity, he taught graduate students and medical students in public health, and conducted population-based research in West Bengal.  During 1998-2006, he served as the chair of the National Health Educator Competencies Update Project research which assessed and validated the entry and advanced-level competencies for health educators leading to a new hierarchical model for the profession.  He currently serves as the chair for the Governor-appointed Wisconsin Public Health Council. Dr. Gilmore’s publications span more than four decades of professional activity to include peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and technical reports.

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M. Donald Campbell, PhD-University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Director, Office of Continuing Education and Extension, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse. Dr. Campbell oversees the delivery of off-campus credit programs, as well as conferences, workshops and other non-credit programs for health and human service professionals, other professional audiences and community groups. Previously, he was Director, Continuing Medical Education for the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught graduate courses in continuing education and program development, and served as book review editor for the Continuing Higher Education Review. He has conducted needs assessments and program evaluations for various professional audiences. His research focuses on the impact of continuing education on professional practice.

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ShowAppropriate Courses

  • Foundations of Health Education
  • Health Promotion and Health Education Program Planning and Evaluation
  • Senior Seminar in Health Education                                   
  • Introduction to Public Health Practice
  • Social Science Research Methods

Designed for four-year institutions, higher level colleges and universities. Also helpful for practitioners in public health, health care patient education, voluntary organizations (e.g., American Cancer Society; American Heart Association), other community-based organizations (e.g., family planning centers, family and children’s centers), and health promotion centers in business settings.

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      Companion Web Site

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      Companion Web Site: http://healtheducation.jbpub.com/gilmore/

      Instructor Resources
      Guide for Needs Assessment Simulation Game Director

      The Needs Assessment Simulation Game, located in Part V of your textbook, is a participatory experience for a class or group in which they can learn about the assessment planning and implementation processes within the context of finite resources. Before beginning your Needs Assessment Simulation, please read the "Guide for Needs Assessment Simulation Game Director." This set of of instructions and tips, written by the authors, will help you to execute the most effective Needs Assessment Simulation possible

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