Topic > The importance of public health assessment - 957

Community health assessments are conducted to assess health needs and typically provide information for the identification of problems and resources and for formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies. Community health assessment also helps to measure problems and provide an assurance function of the public health system as it helps to strengthen the entire system itself (NACCHO, n.d.). A community health assessment is an integral part of the process of improving community health. Because this community health improvement process uses community health assessment data to identify priority issues, develop and implement action strategies, and establish accountability to ensure measurable health improvement, through the form of planning known as a plan of action. improving community health. These improvement processes go beyond the performance of the organization that serves a part of a community and the activities of that specific community contribute to the improvement of the health of the community (NACCHO,