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
- The elements of an assessment
- Selection of assessment target
- Identification of financial resources
- Identification of assessment partners
- Use of surveys
- Use of medical/hospital resources
- Use of citizens
- The report
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 Slides, Handouts.
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?.