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The Multnomah Community Ability Scale is a standardized mental health assessment which scores several different axes of functionality independently. The test was originally developed in Multnomah County , Oregon , whose name it still bears.
The Community Tool Box is a public service of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. It is maintained by the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas (formerly KU Work Group [ 1 ] ). [ 2 ]
Health assessment has been separated by authors from physical assessment to include the focus on health occurring on a continuum as a fundamental teaching. [8] In the healthcare industry it is understood health occurs on a continuum, so the term used is assessment but may be preference by the speciality's focus such as nursing, physical therapy, etc.
A health risk assessment (HRA) is a health questionnaire, used to provide individuals with an evaluation of their health risks and quality of life. [5] Commonly a HRA incorporates three key elements – an extended questionnaire, a risk calculation or score, and some form of feedback, i.e. face-to-face with a health advisor or an automatic online report.
FACE stands for "Functional Analysis of Care Environments".Imosphere produces several toolkits to assess risk and needs in health and social care, mental health, people with learning disabilities, young people, and people with substance misuse problems; to assess peoples' mental capacity, and as an assessment of needs for telecare.
Third, needs assessments of an organization which serves the community (domestic violence centers, community health clinics, etc.). Consumer leadership assessment is an assessment of the frequency with which community members use or are likely to use an existing or planned service. [14]
Community health volunteers are members of a local community who have experience and training on the health problems prevalent in their community and care services available, in order to identify and link those in need with local providers. Community health volunteers may be referred to by different titles depending on their local health system ...
Health impact assessment (HIA) is defined as "a combination of procedures, methods, and tools by which a policy, program, or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population."