Adelekan M
Department of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.
East Afr Med J. 1994 Jul;71(7):432-6.
Drug abuse trends in African countries indicate an urgent need for intensive demand reduction packages to address the problem. However, enormous obstacles exist as many of these countries lack the necessary resources to assess the basic needs essential to implementing empirically-based and cost-effective programmes. This article reviews general principles of needs assessment and provides some practical guidelines appropriate to the African context. Effective cooperation and collaboration at the local, national and the international level is needed to attain the desired goals of needs assessment these countries.
非洲国家的药物滥用趋势表明，迫切需要强化减少需求一揽子计划来解决这一问题。然而，存在巨大障碍，因为许多这些国家缺乏必要资源来评估实施基于实证且具有成本效益的计划所必需的基本需求。本文回顾了需求评估的一般原则，并提供了一些适用于非洲情况的实用指南。要实现这些国家需求评估的预期目标，需要在地方、国家和国际层面进行有效的合作与协作。
