Micro Health Project

Health needs assessment

Health needs assessments are a methodical way to look at the population's health problems and determine priorities and resource allocations that will improve health and lessen inequality.

• Felt needs:
  • The methodology of requirements assessment as a way to gather information required for program creation and design is a common use of the notion. This essay explains why the felt needs concept is inappropriate for modern community development practice and why the needs assessment approach is not a suitable foundation for program design. The result of past-to-present orientation is felt needs. Continued reliance on perceived requirements will make community development less relevant and unable to solve the pressing social and economic problems of the day. The idea of "anticipatory needs," which outlines what must be done in order to move toward a specific future, should take the place of "felt needs." An orientation from the present to the future produces anticipatory wants.
• Observed health needs:
  • For all nursing assessments, effective observation is essential. It serves as a starting point for evaluating the health and development of individuals. It shouldn't be difficult to find this information. An informal evaluation of the community's health is part of observation at the community level.
• Real health needs:
  • Real health needs are those that demand attention, care, and ongoing care.

Principles of need assessment

• Exploration and identification
• Utilization
• Data gathering and analysis
• Evaluation

Introduction of a micro health project

The execution of any community health diagnostic is known as a micro health project. It strives in part to increase community self-reliance and awareness of the issues that are most important to the community, and I create a self-help mechanism to address those issues. By making the best possible use of the tools and resources that are already close by, it helps to alter the knowledge, attitude, and practices of the local population. A micro health project is a small-scale initiative in which people are organized to determine their own needs and quickly mobilize their own resources to address those issues. It is a small-scale health project created by local residents using their own initiative to address pressing issues in the neighborhood.

Importance of MHP

The following are the benefits of the micro health project:

• To manage and prevent the community's health issue.
• To increase community knowledge of its residents' health and health issues.
• To encourage more community members to take part.
• To make use of the community resources that are already localized.
• Decreases the community's reliance on the government and outside benefactors.

Steps of micro health project

It is a small-scale health project created by community members working independently to address a pressing issue. It involves the steps below.

• Planning of micro health project:
• Planning is the process of setting objectives and turning them into particular activities to address community needs or solve community issues. At this point, tactical planning is more suitable, and it might be done by a small group of individuals with assistance from the community health diagnosis group. The following elements are then included in a thorough plan that is created.
  • Identified similar requirements, challenges, or concerns of Objectives
  • Activities
  • Resources (material and human) 
  • Date, location, and the person in charge of criteria and indicators for evaluation
  • Planning is the first and most crucial stage, without which we are unable to take any action.
  • Identification required
  • Scientifically determine the community's actual needs
  • Put the health issue first.
  • Look for the best resource (internal and external)
  • Develop the plan of action (POA) with the neighborhood
  • Setting a community's goal or objective
  • Choosing the right target audience
  • Content must be specific
  • The tentative time and location should be decided upon beforehand.
  • The media and method have been completed.
  • Scheduling time in advance
  • Preparing for execution
  • Scheduling an evaluation
  • Determine the precise goal of your health action and select the most effective strategy for achieving it.
  • Explain in detail the many processes necessary to complete the MHP.
  • Choose which steps to perform first and how long each one should take.
  • Select the manager who will be in charge of MHP overall. ordinarily, YOU or a local leader
• Implementation of micro health project:
• The process of carrying out the plan is called implementation. It is the process of putting resources into motion to achieve the desired objective. The community leader, resource, or responsible person must agree to carry out the micro health project in order for the program to be implemented. The accountable party is moderately well-educated and skilled in carrying out the tasks given to them. Feedback is supplied along with monitoring and supervision. By creating efficient committees, community members may improve their capacity and preserve sustainability.
• Microhealth project evaluation:
• Determining if a project has achieved its aims and objectives is the process of evaluation. Comparing what has been accomplished with what was anticipated to be done is evaluation.
  • Create the committee for MHP implementation.
  • Assign duties to the committee members and inform the public of the program's goals, current status, and development. The MHP may concentrate on issues like as the environment, sanitation, MCH/FP nutrition, communicable diseases, school health, etc.
  • Monitoring and guiding the program's actions on a regular basis
  • Promote program development in the media.
  • Encourage other villages to examine this MHP and learn from it.
  • Ensure that everyone in the community is aware of the MHP's goals.
  • Make sure everyone is aware of the activities to be performed, as well as the times and locations.
  • Make careful to monitor the team's activity.
  • Set up regular and frequent team meetings so that members may communicate, identify difficulties, change plans, and provide extra assistance in time to still achieve the aim.
  • Encourage team members and maintain a positive outlook to encourage cooperation.
  • After the project is finished, assess the outcome.