272998 Collaborating for community health needs assessment

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 : 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Stephanie Branco, MSEPH , National Association of Local Boards of Health, Bowling Green, OH
     
Assessment is a core function of public health. The community health needs assessment process should be data driven and community sensitive. The inclusion of community stakeholders in the process is critical to ensuring all segments of the population are represented. Public health can play an important role in partnership building and facilitating a collaborative process that will maximize benefits to the community by identifying, prioritizing, and addressing local needs driven by data and fostered by community consensus.

Learning Areas:
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related research
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the role of public health in the community health needs assessment process. 2. Identify key components of a community health needs assessment. 3. Explain the importance of involving community stakeholders in the community health needs assessment process.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have conducted a community health assessment for Health Partners 2000, a collaboration of public and private health organizations in Sandusky County, Ohio. My duties included collection, analysis, and maintenance secondary health and survey research data, convening community stakeholders, and facilitating collaborative processes to determine health priorities and develop plans to address them.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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