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Community Health Assessment

On the Center for Local Health's Community Health Assessment website, you will find resources to help support your community's health assessment process. If you have any feedback, please contact the Center's epidemiologist, Samantha Batdorf.

A community health assessment is a "process of collecting, analyzing, and using data to educate and mobilize communities, develop priorities, garner resources, and plan actions to improve the public's health...it involves the systematic collection and analysis of data in order to provide the health department and the community it serves with a sound basis for decision-making. It should be conducted in partnership with other organizations in the community and include collecting data on health status, health needs, community assets, resources, and other community or state determinants of health status." - Public Health Accreditation Board

Community Health Assessment Resources

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Department of Health and Human Resources

West Virginia Center for Local Health
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Charleston, WV 25301
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