A Community Health Assessment (or CHA) is a comprehensive picture of a community’s current health status, factors contributing to higher health risks or poorer health outcomes, and community resources available to improve health.
Community health assessments are comprised of data and information from multiple sources, which describe the community’s demographics; health status; morbidity and mortality; socioeconomic characteristics; quality of life; community resources; behavioral factors; the environment (including the built environment); and other social and structural determinants of health status.
2024 Community Health Assessment – click here to view
2016 Community Health Assessment – click here to view
A Community Health Improvement Plan (or CHIP) is a long-term, systematic effort to address public health problems based on the results of community health assessment activities and the community health improvement process. A CHIP is typically updated every three to five years.
2024-2029 Community Health Improvement Plan – coming soon
2016-2019 Community Health Improvement Plan – click here to view
For more information about the community health plans, please contact Shannon King at 606-564-9447 ext. 126 or [email protected]
Source: Community Planning for Health Assessment: CHA & CHIP | Public Health Gateway | CDC