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Assessing community health needs of elderly populations: comparison of three strategies
Author(s) -
Schultz Phyllis R.,
Magilvy Joan K.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1988.tb01408.x
Subject(s) - census , neighbourhood (mathematics) , ethnography , gerontology , american community survey , population , community health , survey data collection , geography , sociology , medicine , public health , nursing , demography , mathematical analysis , statistics , mathematics , archaeology
Three research strategies for assessing the community health needs ofthe elderly population of an urban neighbourhood are described. Two primary research strategies, survey and ethnography, are contrasted with the types of health‐related information available from the Census of Population and Housing. Different types of data emerged from each research strategy with census and survey data providing a global portrait ofthe community, and ethnographic data yielding more detail about the place of health in the lived experience of older residents.