Pros And Cons Of Community Health Assessment

A Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) was conducted in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, with the focus on mainly Dekalb and Fulton Counties. The CHNA was conducted to identify the needs and resources in the community with the input from the community members, key stakeholders, and the public health. The CHNA would be used as a guide for the community in its future community health projects.
The two logic models utilized were Precede-Proceed model and MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships). The qualitative data methods used for the data collection were- researching the national, state, and local databases; reviewing the previously conducted county health assessments and reports; interviewing key stakeholders in the

It is more feasible if the public health issue affects a community, rather than an individual. For the strategic plan to work, funding is

Reviewing previously conducted county health assessments and reports is also important in evaluating the trend of the issue over the past few years. Conducting semi-structured individual interviews with key stakeholders from the community, senior Police Officer from Atlanta Police Department, Officer B. Mathew, and the Nurse Manager of Emory Rehabilitation Hospital, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, helped to gather data in an informal environment to obtain the most productive responses regarding their professional perspective of the priority community health issues.13 Finally, using creative tools such as windshield survey of the streets of Fulton county and photovoice of the houses and living environment of the certain areas in the county helps to identify and explore the community, its needs, its strengths, and its priority concerns through visual observations and