Community Planning for Health Assessment: Data Benchmarks The world's largest, ongoing telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984 Data are collected monthly in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Guam
States Aim to Improve Public Health Data in Various Ways Our research has shown that a mix of approaches that can help drive uptake, from state requirements to federal support of financial incentives, such as the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program
Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning A successful community health improvement process requires relationship building across sectors, broad community engagement, comprehensive assessment of community needs and strengths, and collaborative action by the local public health system
Measuring, Monitoring, and Evaluating the Health of a Population Public health depends on information derived from monitoring population health status to identify community health problems, and to diagnose and investigate health problems and hazards in the community