Community Assessment - II

Presenters: Steve Horan Ph.D., Kim Buttery MBBS MPH

Objectives: (part I in Epid 600 was a general approach, this segment is devoted to state & local operations)

After this set of lectures the student should be able to describe

Key Words:

Community Assessment, objective evaluation, community definition, stakeholders, surveys, data sets, measurements, partnering, networking

Readings:

Scan Buttery - Essay 3. Governing by Network, Chapter 4 plus Pages 99-110.
Essentials of Public Health Management Chapter 4, Scan Schneider Edn 2, Chap 11
"Trying Hard" Chapter 3

Resources:

Students with Laptops containing wireless access cards are encouraged to bring them to class for the exercises.

APEX-PH   MAPP
Virginia Atlas
Healthy People in Healthy Communities, A Community Planning Guide Using Healthy People 2010. The Healthy Cities Movement
Statemaster A web site that allows examinatinof state by stated data from multiplke resources.
Community Based Information Systems(June 2006)
CHSI - Community Health Status Indicators.
Atlas Training Slides Handouts
VCEHP (Virginia Community Health Entrepreneurs Program

Hour 1 Steve Horan Elements of planning Slides (handouts) ExecSum

Hour 2 & 3 The Healthy Communities Process - Development of partners in assessment, how to develop a statement of the assessment and the community's expected response and Data Sources. Dr. Buttery's SlidesHandouts.

Discussion Board Questions.
How could you use the Data sets at the Virginia Healthy Communities/Virginia Atlas and CHSI web site to develop policy at the local and state level?What other data sets might be of the most use?.