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Centre for Research on Inner City Health - Rapid Assessment Tool for Small-Area Health Needs
Download presentation (1.4 MB pdf file)The Rapid Assessment Tool for Small-Area Health Needs was developed to quickly and reliably assess small-area health status and health needs for use by decision-makers and service providers as well as community groups and non-profit providers of publicly-funded services. The tool allows users to collect information on several topics including health status, health care use, health behaviours and neighbourhood services.
A ‘tool kit’ has also been developed that includes a manual and user guide as well as a set of best practices for knowledge translation to guide potential users from the survey planning stage all the way to the final stages of data interpretation and dissemination. This manual and appendices to the manual, including the survey tool, are available below.
The survey was piloted in four Toronto neighbourhoods (South Parkdale, North St. Jamestown, Weston, and Eglington East) which produced valuable information for service planning, program development and advocacy in these neighbourhoods.
Access Study Resources:
- Project Manual for Community Health and Social Service Providers (310 kb pdf file)
- Project Manual for Interviewers, Part 1 (1,845 kb pdf file)
- Project Manual for Interviewers, Part 2 (56 kb pdf file)
- Constructing an SPSS codebook (257 kb pdf file)
- Survey tool/Questionairre (122 kb pdf file)
- Presentations
- A Practical Rapid Assessment Tool for Health Needs in Small Urban Areas – St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto (April 23, 2009) (1.4 MB pdf file)
Contacts:
James Dunn, PhD
CIHR-PHAC Chair in Applied Public Health - Residential Neighbourhoods & Population Health;
Research Scientist, Centre for Research on Inner City Health, The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital
dunnj@smh.ca
Hilary Gibson-Wood, MA
Research Coordinator
Centre for Research on Inner City Health
St.Micheal's Hospital
hilary.gibson.wood@mcmaster.ca
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