ASSESSMENT DOMAIN
ASSESSMENT DOMAIN
DEFINITION: Collecting needs, resources, and data in communities and systems about intervening variables, consumption, consequences that promote or compromise health, and community perceptions about why those situations exist (contributing factors).
Knowledge of sources of relevant public health data and information.
Knowledge of ethical considerations — including confidentiality and cultural awareness—in the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of data and information for prevention planning.
Knowledge of appropriate methods and instruments for collecting valid and reliable quantitative and qualitative data for prevention planning.
Knowledge of a variety of methods to collect and use accurate demographic, cultural, epidemiological, usage, and consequence data for underserved groups (e.g., racial/ethnic, older adults, persons with disabilities) in the service area, and knowledge of how to use these methodologies to become informed about the ethnic/cultural needs, resources, and assets of the surrounding community.
Locating, understanding, and interpreting written information in prose and documents such as manuals, reports, memos, letters, forms, graphs, charts, and tables.
Collecting quantitative and qualitative community data.
Identifying and compiling relevant information to solve a problem, including researching literature and reports through the Internet for population-based health, substance use, and mental health indicators.
Using information technology to collect, store, and retrieve data.
Using appropriate reference material (e.g., statutes, regulations, reference books, and journals) to identify key sources of data for epidemiologic purposes.
Ability to identify main ideas, implied meaning and details, missing information, trends, facts, and inconsistencies.
Ability to consult with experts in the appropriate field, such as epidemiologists, policy makers, community gatekeepers, and key leaders and stakeholders who touch the lives of those affected.
Ability to gather, interpret, and analyze information relevant to specific prevention policy issues (e.g., current data and trends).
Ability to assess community readiness and identify the health and mental health status of populations and their related determinants of health and illness (e.g., factors contributing to health promotion and prevention; and the quality, availability, access to, and use of health and mental health services).