Rapid Needs Assessment can be used to quickly assess community health needs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed a framework for rapid needs assessments called, Community Assessment Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER). This framework uses a location-based random sampling methodology to determine which areas should be assessed. Surveys can then be conducted quickly in these areas and analyzed to determine needs for the entire community. Understanding where health needs are the greatest helps organizations direct services, funding, and resources to those in need.
The Rapid Needs Assessment solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you define survey areas at a household level, identify community needs, and monitor disaster response or health action plan indicators as the assessments occur.
Deploy the solution
This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.
See Deploying a solution for more information.
Requirements
Rapid Needs Assessment requires the following:
- ArcGIS Online
- ArcGIS Pro 3.4 or later
- ArcGIS Survey123
Information products
Rapid Needs Assessment includes the following information products:
| Item | Description | Minimum user type |
|---|---|---|
Rapid Needs Assessment Planner | An ArcGIS Pro project used by assessment managers to identify random survey areas that represent the needs of the entire community so you can efficiently conduct a rapid needs assessment |
Creator |
Rapid Needs Assessment Progress Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by assessment managers to monitor progress of your assessments so you can ensure teams are meeting sampling requirements | Viewer |
Rapid Needs Assessment Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by internal stakeholders to monitor key indicators as the assessments occur so you can direct services, funding and resources | Viewer |
Rapid Needs Assessment Manager | An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by assessment managers to assign interview teams to survey areas | Contributor |
Rapid Needs Assessment Survey | An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by used by interview teams to rapidly collect household health needs so you can understand larger community needs | Mobile Worker |
When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.
Release notes
The following are the release notes:
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 1.0 (Mar 2025) |
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