Community and Population Health Status Assessment

Our Community and Population Health Status Assessment (CHSA) is a process that involves several information gathering components, and the entire process is tailored to each community, from data gathering to analysis translation, presentations and application. The main components of our CHSA are: analyzing secondary data, facilitating discussion groups and conducting a Health Status Survey (HSS). I have found these methods to yield important consumer suggestions and subsequent application strategies for improving health status and increasing market share. These methods have brought to light the needs of entire communities and of special groups within a community. Some applications for our assessment include: national, state and local policy development, financing service and delivery systems for the underserved, improving community health services through intervention planning, capacity inventories, community benefit analysis, measuring local populations against the benchmarks and goals established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for population health (reported in Healthy People 2010 Objectives for the Nation), and meeting accreditation or quality certification requirements such as those established by the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO) or the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The CHSA can be used by managed care organizations, Health maintenance organizations, private insurers, government and non government organizations, philanthropies, private sector employers or; associations and other health and human service providers that seek to plan, organize, sustain, monitor and evaluate population health status improvement within a specific population of people.

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