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County Health Data Book
North Carolina Community Health Assessment Process

Preface

The project staff of the North Carolina Community Health Assessment Initiative (NC-CHAI) created the County Health Data Book to provide communities with quantitative data to support community health assessments. The County Health Data Book includes a wide range of health-related county and state data in seven main areas: Population, Pregnancy/Live Births, Mortality, Morbidity, Health Resources/Programs, Education, and Community Health.

Guidelines and worksheets for summarizing and interpreting these data are presented in an accompanying publication entitled the Community Assessment Guide Book. In addition to these statistical aids, the Community Assessment Guide Book provides tools for collecting community data, procedures for setting local health priorities, and guidelines for developing and evaluating public health programs and policies. The Community Assessment Guide Book can be considered a resource document or toolkit for county public health departments, Healthy Carolinians task forces, and other community agencies.

Funded by grant U82/CCU417938 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the NC-CHAI is a joint project of the State Center for Health Statistics (SCHS) and the Office of Healthy Carolinians/Health Education (OHC/HE). The goal of this initiative is to build the capacity of communities to use data for public health program planning and policy making. To achieve this goal, the SCHS and the OHC/HE are working to connect and strengthen the assessment activities of county health departments, local Healthy Carolinians task forces, and other community organizations.

• Instructions for Completing Your Community Action Plan (Word 97 Document - 30 kb)
• Community Action Plan (Word 97 Document - 33 kb)
• Additional Objectives Form (Word 97 Document - 30 kb)
• Action Plan Examples (Word 97 Document - 44 kb)
• Evaluation Form (Word 97 Document - 40 kb)

You will need Microsoft Word or the free Viewer for Word to view these files.

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