Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health
Promotion
| UW-L Author: |
Gary D. Gilmore, Ph.D., CHES
Health Education/Health Promotion |
| Copyright: |
2005 |
| Publisher: |
Jones and Bartlett |
Gilmore, Gary D., M. Donald Campbell, and Gary D.
Gilmore. Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and
Health Promotion. Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett, 2005.
The only text of its kind available for health and human service
practitioners, the Third Edition of Needs and Capacity Assessment
Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion continues to be a
highly regarded practitioner’s guidebook that is used in upper division
undergraduate and graduate professional preparation classes. Each one of the
twelve chapters in this edition reflects practitioner involvement in needs
and capacity assessments. This is truly a hands-on guidebook for those in
their professional preparation phases, as well as seasoned practitioners in
public health, health care, human service, and other community-based
professional endeavors.
From the Foreword by
Lawrence
Green:
“[The authors'] combination of needs assessment and capacity
assessment strategies provides practitioners with the right balance for
formative evaluation and planning with community leaders who are cynical
about another round of needs assessment that fails to acknowledge the
strengths and assets of the community. Capacity assessment offers an
antidote to the despair that comes with identifying one’s community
problems….As authors of a book on program planning, Marshall Kreuter and I
are indebted to Gilmore and Campbell for the pressure their book takes off
of us to provide much of the detailed description and procedures of some of
the needs and capacity assessment steps in planning that this book provides.
Even if we thought we could do it as well, we would be ill advised to repeat
much of what is now so well presented and documented in this book.”
About the Author
ince 1974, Dr. Gilmore has resided in La Crosse,
Wisconsin, and has held a joint appointment
with the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
and the University
of Wisconsin-Extension.
He is Professor and Director of Graduate Community Health Programs.
His prior experiences were in public health and preventive medicine at the
Bergen County Health Department (N.J.), and at the Preventive Medicine Unit,
General Leonard Wood Hospital, U.S.
Army (where he received the Army Commendation Medal in Preventive Medicine).
His training in epidemiology and public health is through the
School
of Public Health at the University of Minnesota,
with additional training in epidemiology at the New England Epidemiology
Institute,
Tufts University.
He is the founding and continuing Director of the first Master of Public
Health Program (CEPH accredited) offered in the University of Wisconsin
System. The program was
ranked 6th in the nation by the 2004 U.S. News and World Report ranking of
the Best Graduate Programs in Community Health. As an
inherent part of his appointment, he also directs the Community Health
Programming Unit in Continuing Education and Extension (University of
Wisconsin-Extension). He has served on the American
Cancer Society National Board of Directors during 1986-1996, and 1999-2002,
and is the recipient of the St. George Medal. In his
service to the American Cancer Society, Dr. Gilmore has chaired the National
Prevention Committee, chaired the National Tobacco and Cancer Committee,
chaired the National Science, Planning, and Applications Committee, chaired
the National Advisory Committee on the State of the Science in Cancer
Prevention, chaired the National Advisory Group on the Implications of
Managed Care for Cancer Prevention and Control, and chaired the Tobacco-Free
Young American Committee. He served as Chair of the Board
of Directors of the American Cancer Society-Wisconsin Division, and a
Director member of its Board of Directors from 1976 to 1998.
Since Division inception in 1999 through Spring 2007, Dr. Gilmore
served as a Board member on the Board of Directors of the American Cancer
Society-Midwest Division. In the Midwest Division, he
served as the first chair of the Cancer Control Committee, chair of the
Disparities Committee, and currently serves on the International Committee
and Research Committee. Additionally, he currently
serves as the Immediate Past President of the National Council of Accredited
Master of Public Health Programs.
Dr. Gilmore received the 2001 Regents Teaching Excellence Award bestowed
by the Board of Regents,
University
of Wisconsin System.
He also received the 1998 Award for Excellence from the University of
Wisconsin-Extension.
During 1999-2000, Dr. Gilmore served as the first Fulbright Senior
Scholar at the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta, India.
In that capacity, he taught graduate students and medical practitioners in
the principles of public health, and conducted population-based research in West Bengal.
Along with his extensive publications in health education and health
promotion, Dr. Gilmore completed the third edition of his co-authored text,
Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health
Promotion, 2005, published by Jones and Bartlett
Publishers, Boston.
Dr. Gilmore chaired the six-year National Health Educator Competencies
Update Project which sought to validate the entry and advanced-level
competencies for health education specialists. He was
joined on the Steering Committee by Larry K. Olsen, Dr.PH, CHES and Alyson
Taub, Ed.D., CHES. Responses were received from
practitioners in all 50 states and the District of Columbia yielding a 70.6%
response rate. The results of this national research
impact advancements in professional preparation, certification, and
professional development. The overview article for this
national research appeared in the December 2005 issue of Health Education
and Behavior and the November/December 2005 issue of the American Journal of
Health Education.
In addition to national research activity, Dr. Gilmore offers his
consultation services to local community organizations through the Community
Health Programming Unit, Continuing Education
and Extension, University
of Wisconsin, which he
directs. More recently, he served as the Evaluation
Consultant for the Youth Violence Prevention Project in the La Crosse Area
which was funded by a 2-year Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) grant.
Dr. Gilmore was appointed in 2004, and reappointed in 2008, by Wisconsin
Governor James Doyle to serve on the Wisconsin Public Health Council.
The Council is charged with advancing the statewide health plan
entitled, Healthiest
Wisconsin:
2010, furthering statewide emergency preparedness, and advising the Governor
on policies and strategies for public health enhancement.
He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Council.
