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The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:
legal and organisation requirements relating to identifying and assessing the health needs of a community, including:ethical considerationsduty of careequity issues in population healthevidence-based practicerelevant international charters/declarations and documents national, State/Territory and local health policies, goals, targets and prioritiesorganisation standards, policies and procedures, including scope of own role and responsibilitiesstakeholders or organisations for collaborative partnershipsstrategies and activities that build the ongoing capacity of the community to identify their health needs theory and practice of population health, including health promotion, and health protection and prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases relating to identifying health needsprinciples and techniques of consultation and participationsocial change and advocacy processesdifference between and examples of qualitative and quantitative datastages of health needs assessmenttypes of needs, including:normative need (based on expert opinion)expressed need (based on inferences made from observation of use of health services)comparative need (base on examining the services provided in a similar communities)felt need (based on what members of the community say they need)sources of information and processes for critical appraisal of literaturecommon health problems of a community and causal pathways, including the following components:risk markers (identify the target group, outlines the characteristics associated with occurrence of problem but do not necessarily directly contribute to it)risk factors (directly account for why the problem is occurring)contributing factors (contribute to or account for the risk factors and could be sorted out into predisposing factors, enabling factors and reinforcing factors).