Community Health Assessment
POWER Defiance County oversees the Community Health Assessment, a process that happens every three years. This assessment helps to tell a story of health in Defiance County.
A community health assessment (sometimes called a CHA) identifies key health needs and issues in a community. CHAs use such principles as:
Collaboration between partners and stakeholders
Proactive, broad, and diverse community engagement to improve results
A definition of community that is an area to allow for population-wide program or services and measurable results, and includes a focus to address health issues
Maximum transparency to improve community engagement and accountability
Use of evidence-based interventions
Evaluation to inform continuous improvement
Use of the highest quality data from public and private sources and shared with the community