A scoping review of community health needs and assets assessment: concepts, rationale, tools and uses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community health needs and assets assessment is a means of identifying and describing community health needs and resources, serving as a mechanism to gain the necessary information to make informed choices about community health. The current review of the literature was performed in order to shed more light on concepts, rationale, tools and uses of community health needs and assets assessment.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review of the literature published in English using PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, PDQ evidence, NIH database, Cochrane library, CDC library, Trip, and Global Health Library databases until March 2021.

Results

A total of 169 articles including both empirical papers and theoretical and conceptual work were ultimately retained for

SUBMITTER: Ravaghi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9847055 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature