Session: Where Data Meets Practice: Evaluating Community Health Assessments

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4119.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral

Where Data Meets Practice: Evaluating Community Health Assessments

Using examples, presenters from five states funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Assessment Initiative – Florida, New York, Rhode Island, Utah and Washington, will share findings of community health assessment evaluations, and describe strengths and limitations of the various evaluation methods. They will also describe a framework for evaluating community health assessments. The presenters will describe: Florida State Department of Health’s mechanisms to track changes in local capacity for planning, partnership attributes and performance indicators, part of the Comprehensive Assessment, Strategic Success (COMPASS) initiative; New York State Department of Health evaluation of the impact of community health assessments on policy, program and infrastructure; Rhode Island State Department of Health’s evaluation of the impact of a web-based data query system (WDQS); Utah State Department of Health’s follow-up research on how Indicator-Based Information System (IBIS) for Public Health is utilized at the local level; and Washington State Department of Health’s Assessment in Action (AIA) project’s tracking tool designed to identify the outcomes of local health jurisdiction’s assessment activities.

Learning Objectives: 1. Describe frameworks for evaluating community health assessments. 2. State the link between assessment, and community health improvement. 3. Illustrate how systems work interactively and cumulatively for health improvement.

Organizer(s):

Priti Irani, MS

Moderator(s):

Nelson Adekoya, DrPH

12:30 PM

Tracking impacts of community health improvement planning: Multiple measures monitor progress