Development of Health Care Needs Mapping of the Elderly People with Chronic Diseases in Thuy Chau Ward, Huong Thuy Town, Vietnam

Introduction: Health care needs mapping is an easy-tounderstand visual tool to demonstrate the demographic, community health care needs, available resources, and current health care infrastructure. In the developed countries, applying the community health mapping to assess and address the community health problems for a long time and the results have shown that health mapping provides visually reports on the local needs and assets but in the developing countries applying the community health mapping for planning and management community meet several barriers like shortage of quality basic data, the limited of resources Methodology: Mix-methods study was used in this study. Phase one was to develop a database by using Multiple approaches and sources were employed to determine the community health status at Thuy Chau ward. The health care mapping was designed based on findings of the needs assessment which evaluated the utilization of mapping and modified following feedback of focus group discussion among local health care workers at Thuy Chau Ward Station. Results: The designed health care need mapping was an effective tool for holistic rapid communication amongst health care providers about chronic health care needs at the community level. Conclusions: The study demonstrated that healthcare needs mapping tools were a useful and inexpensive tool for visualizing accessing healthcare data. Further health care needs mapping should focus on users' problems and requests for additional features, and health mapping should expand into the health system