COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENTS
Community Health Assessments (CHA) are part of a community health improvement process designed by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). To complete the CHA, local health departments employ the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP 2.0) framework to collect and analyze key public health and healthcare data.
Each CHA includes three sub-assessments designed to explore community needs and opportunities in public health and healthcare. The sub-assessments include the Community Status Assessment (CSA), Community Context Assessment (CCA), and the Community Partners Assessment (CPA). The sub-assessments engage community members, healthcare providers, and local stakeholders in the process of assessing the local public health landscape. The results of the CHA are used to develop the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), a detailed plan that drives the local health department’s strategic action.
Knowli assists health departments with the CHA process, including:
- Developing assessment instruments such as surveys, focus group protocols, and interview guides
- Conducting and administering interviews and focus groups
- Fielding surveys with methods that ensure high response rates
- Bolstering community involvement through planning and implementing public advertising campaigns
- Cleaning and analyzing data by transcribing and coding qualitative data and processing and graphing quantitative data
- Presenting monthly reports to stakeholders on the progress of data collection and analysis
- Writing report narratives and translating results into actionable plain language
- Producing data visualizations and dashboard displays that identify key issues to be addressed during the CHIP process
