Community Health Improvement
Defiance County works together to improve the behavioral, physical, mental and social health and overall well-being of our community. There are many factors that affect one’s health; collaboration encourages connecting, coordination and working together around common goals to help strengthen the programs, services, and resources that create a healthy community.
A community health assessment gives organizations complete information about the community’s current health status, needs, and issues. This information can help develop a community health improvement plan by showing how and where resources should be used to best meet community needs.
Improved organizational and community coordination and collaboration
Increased knowledge about public health and the connection between activities
Strengthened partnerships within state and local public health systems
Identified strengths and weaknesses to address in quality improvement efforts
Baselines on performance to use in preparing for accreditation
Benchmarks for public health practice improvements