Assessment of community health needs of Chongqing residents: a qualitative study

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• 作者：Li Ying ; Li Daikun ; He Jia ; Shi Kai ; Liu HongHong ; Zhang Hu
• 关键词：Community health needs assessment ; Health promotion ; Qualitative study
• 刊名：Journal of Medical Colleges of PLA
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：October 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：23
• 期：5
• 页码：289-299
• 全文大小：191 K

文摘

Objective

The aim of this preliminary qualitative study was to gain insight into community health needs in order to develop health program for community in Chongqing.

Methods

Totally 40 participants were assigned into 6 focus group discussions. All groups were led by local language speakers, and their talking was recorded after gaining informed consent. Transcribed data were coded and subjected to thematic analysis.

Results

The main obtained themes were that community health problems were chronic noncommunicable disease, main health service needs included regularly free check-up and health education, and perceived health risk factors were unhealthy lifestyle and behavior as well as environment problems.

Conclusion

Our community health needs assessment (CHNA) with FGDs indicate that residents realize the importance of prevention of disease. Our study identifies that primarily community health promotion is one of the priorities of community health service needs, including reorienting health service, health education, guiding behavior or lifestyle, and creating healthy environments. The findings of this study can provide guidance to the development of more effective and pertinent health program in this community.