Community Health Assessment
The County Department of Health (DOH) is requesting proposals from qualified agencies to conduct a community health assessment (CHA).
The CHA must involve community stakeholders, provide health status information in a language or cultural format to accommodate special population groups, identify at least three public health priorities and include a summary report. The CHA must include data from at least five reliable secondary data sources and primary data collected by the DOH and at least one community organization. Some data should be shown visually using graphs for previous and current years. Where applicable, trend analysis must be used to explain changes that have occurred in the health status indicators. The County trends must be compared with state trends and with trends of a jurisdiction with similar geographic or population areas. Trend analysis must be used to project the severity of health status problems into the future. Methods used to collect and analyze data must be documented. Sample populations used in any surveys must be defined. Sources of data must be identified and cited and the time period covered must be defined. Randomization must be assured or limitations must be cited. The CHA must be prepared in a format that is appropriate for distribution to community residents.
