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Community Health Assessment
Orange County’s 2011 Community Health Assessment (CHA) represents the results of a year-long, community-wide effort to assess the health needs of Orange County. The CHA is intended to enable local public health professionals and community groups to monitor trends in health status, identify priorities among health issues, and determine the availability of resources within Orange County to adequately address these priorities. Current Priority Areas are 1) Access to health care, insurance, and information; 2) Chronic disease, exercise, and nutrition; 3) Mental health; 4) Substance use; and, 5) Injury.
A goal of the CHA process is for the information gleaned from this document to be widely shared and utilized to influence strategic planning across the community. Healthy Carolinians of Orange County also hopes that all its partners will actively seek and find ways to utilize their programs, services, and resources to address the identified needs as is appropriate to their stated missions. The full report and executive summary documents can be accessed here.
Many efforts are underway to address priority areas, but new initiatives are needed to respond to identified gaps. Progress will require a total community involvement. Join the more than 125 other individuals and 80 county agencies and organizations who are partnering with Healthy Carolinians of Orange County to find creative solutions so that all Orange County residents can choose health as their first priority.