COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT

What is a Community Health Needs Assessment? 

A community health assessment (sometimes called a CHA), also known as community health needs assessment (sometimes called a CHNA), refers to a state, tribal, local, or territorial health assessment that identifies key health needs and issues through systematic, comprehensive data collection and analysis.

Community health assessments use such principles as:

• Multisector collaborations that support shared ownership of all phases of community health improvement, including assessment, planning, investment, implementation, and evaluation

• Proactive, broad, and diverse community engagement to improve results

• A definition of community that encompasses both a significant enough area to allow for population-wide interventions and measurable results, and includes a targeted focus to address disparities among subpopulations

• Maximum transparency to improve community engagement and accountability

• Use of evidence-based interventions and encouragement of innovative practices with thorough evaluation

• Evaluation to inform a continuous improvement process

• Use of the highest quality data pooled from, and shared among, diverse public and private sources

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For Source and more information visit: CDC - Community Health Assessment