PPN302 FINAL | 173 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026
UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
What is health? Answer - - Extent to which individual/community is able to
realize aspirations and satisfy needs
- Change or cope with the environment
- Resource for everyday living
- Positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as
physical capabilities
- balance between physical, social, and spiritual dimensions
What is community? Answer - - A collective ppl who live in defined geopolitical
boundary, work, play, and pray in a space
- A collective ppl who share common values and concerns
- The way ppl think about and organize their social relationships
- NOT a coherent or fixed entity
Before doing a community assessment, consider: Answer - 1. Purpose of
assessment
2. Target population
3. Social and/or geopolitical boundaries of the community
4. Community composition
5. Characteristics of community
6. Approaches or techniques that will be used
,7. Degree of political support
8. Time frame for assessment
9. Available resources to carry out the assessment
10. The cost and benefits of the assessment
What is a community assessment? Answer - - A process of gathering,
analyzing, and reporting information about the needs and the capacities or
strengths that are also currently available in your community meet those
needs.
- Part of a complex process of identifying & responding to problems, needs,
issues affecting population.
What are 3 basic steps of Community Health Assessment? Answer - 1. Gather
(data gathering and generation)
2. Analyze (data interpretation and needs identification)
3. Prioritize (setting priorities and resource evaluation)
Stakeholders Answer - Anyone & everyone who has an interest in/stake in the
community and community process
Gatekeepers Answer - The person, people, or institutions that hold the power
to let you in or keep you out.
Environmental scan is Answer - - Broad overview of a community to see
"what's what"
- "Look, listen, and watch" at different times, days
For environmental scan, consider: Answer - - The appropriateness of an
environmental scan for the purpose of assessment.
,- How your own assumptions and expectations might affect the assessment
process
- Ethical issues, factors related to SDOH, equity, social justice in the assessment
of process and analysis
For Problem investigation, consider: Answer - - Who has identified problems
and how is framed
- Power dynamics in the community overall and in the identification of the
problem
- Solutions that are being suggested and by whom
- How your own assumptions and expectation may affect the process
- Ethical issues, SDOH, equity, social justice
Resource evaluation is: Answer - - Evaluating existing resources and services
- Examining if resources meet identified needs; if they are appropriate to the
demographics
- Often done when service use has changed
For resource evaluation, consider: Answer - - Whether the issue is about
services/resources, shifting demographics, or something else
-Implications of the social, political, and economic realities on the potential for
change
- Who is advocating for change and issues of power
- Influence your own assumptions and expectations on the process
- Ethical issues, SDOH, equity, social justice
For needs assessment, consider: Answer - - Whose needs are being expressed
- Whether they are needs or wants
, - Where to being - small or big issues?
- The power dynamics
- How your assumptions and expectations might affect the process
- The ethical issue and factors related to SDOH, equity, social justice
4 types of needs Answer - 1. normative needs: determined by experts through
professional analysis
2. felt need: what ppl say they need
3. Expressed need: felt need turned into action
4. Comparative need: comparing services or resources of one area to another
similar area
What are some of the factors to consider when obtaining data? Answer - -
history of the community
- Perception of community by both CHN and community
- Population demographics
- Physical, socioeconomic environment
- Education and healthy child development
- Culture and religion
- health and social services
- governance and politics
5 questions to ask for analyzing data Answer - 1. What is the interplay btw data
sources - support or contradict?
2. What are the primary issues that need to be addressed and what tells you
so?
3. What capacities exist?
4. What challenges exist?
UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
What is health? Answer - - Extent to which individual/community is able to
realize aspirations and satisfy needs
- Change or cope with the environment
- Resource for everyday living
- Positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as
physical capabilities
- balance between physical, social, and spiritual dimensions
What is community? Answer - - A collective ppl who live in defined geopolitical
boundary, work, play, and pray in a space
- A collective ppl who share common values and concerns
- The way ppl think about and organize their social relationships
- NOT a coherent or fixed entity
Before doing a community assessment, consider: Answer - 1. Purpose of
assessment
2. Target population
3. Social and/or geopolitical boundaries of the community
4. Community composition
5. Characteristics of community
6. Approaches or techniques that will be used
,7. Degree of political support
8. Time frame for assessment
9. Available resources to carry out the assessment
10. The cost and benefits of the assessment
What is a community assessment? Answer - - A process of gathering,
analyzing, and reporting information about the needs and the capacities or
strengths that are also currently available in your community meet those
needs.
- Part of a complex process of identifying & responding to problems, needs,
issues affecting population.
What are 3 basic steps of Community Health Assessment? Answer - 1. Gather
(data gathering and generation)
2. Analyze (data interpretation and needs identification)
3. Prioritize (setting priorities and resource evaluation)
Stakeholders Answer - Anyone & everyone who has an interest in/stake in the
community and community process
Gatekeepers Answer - The person, people, or institutions that hold the power
to let you in or keep you out.
Environmental scan is Answer - - Broad overview of a community to see
"what's what"
- "Look, listen, and watch" at different times, days
For environmental scan, consider: Answer - - The appropriateness of an
environmental scan for the purpose of assessment.
,- How your own assumptions and expectations might affect the assessment
process
- Ethical issues, factors related to SDOH, equity, social justice in the assessment
of process and analysis
For Problem investigation, consider: Answer - - Who has identified problems
and how is framed
- Power dynamics in the community overall and in the identification of the
problem
- Solutions that are being suggested and by whom
- How your own assumptions and expectation may affect the process
- Ethical issues, SDOH, equity, social justice
Resource evaluation is: Answer - - Evaluating existing resources and services
- Examining if resources meet identified needs; if they are appropriate to the
demographics
- Often done when service use has changed
For resource evaluation, consider: Answer - - Whether the issue is about
services/resources, shifting demographics, or something else
-Implications of the social, political, and economic realities on the potential for
change
- Who is advocating for change and issues of power
- Influence your own assumptions and expectations on the process
- Ethical issues, SDOH, equity, social justice
For needs assessment, consider: Answer - - Whose needs are being expressed
- Whether they are needs or wants
, - Where to being - small or big issues?
- The power dynamics
- How your assumptions and expectations might affect the process
- The ethical issue and factors related to SDOH, equity, social justice
4 types of needs Answer - 1. normative needs: determined by experts through
professional analysis
2. felt need: what ppl say they need
3. Expressed need: felt need turned into action
4. Comparative need: comparing services or resources of one area to another
similar area
What are some of the factors to consider when obtaining data? Answer - -
history of the community
- Perception of community by both CHN and community
- Population demographics
- Physical, socioeconomic environment
- Education and healthy child development
- Culture and religion
- health and social services
- governance and politics
5 questions to ask for analyzing data Answer - 1. What is the interplay btw data
sources - support or contradict?
2. What are the primary issues that need to be addressed and what tells you
so?
3. What capacities exist?
4. What challenges exist?
