ASSESSMENT DOMAIN
ASSESSMENT DOMAIN
DEFINITION: Systematically determining the health and mental health issues, characteristics and cultural considerations, and available resources associated with a defined population, community, or geographic area through qualitative and quantitative methods — identifying needs, resources, and gaps.
Knowledge of community demographics, history, and norms.
Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methods of determining health and mental health issues, characteristics and cultural considerations, and available resources within a given population, with an understanding of risks, root causes, and local conditions.
Knowledge of existing resources available to address individual, family, and community needs.
Using qualitative and quantitative methods to identify needs, resources, and gaps related to prevention activities.
Applying the basic public health sciences, including behavioral and social sciences, biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental public health, and prevention of chronic and infectious diseases and injuries.
Ability to describe the characteristics of a population-based health or mental health problem.
Ability to use state and local repositories of information on substance use, health, and mental health.
Ability to analyze resources and needs and identify target audiences and community resource gaps.
Ability to monitor health and mental health status to identify individual, family, and community health problems.
Ability to define, assess, and understand the health and mental health status of populations, determinants of health and illness, factors contributing to health promotion and disease prevention, and factors influencing access to and use of health services.