Engaging Community Partners

Community mobilization, participatory methods, partnerships and coalitions

Epidemiology and Data Analysis

This topic includes epidemiology and statistical analysis.

GIS and Spatial Analysis

Mapping, geographic information systems and other aspects of spatial analysis

Health Disparities and Social Inequalities

Tools and information to address health inequalities and the social conditions that contribute to them

Human Subjects & Public Records Disclosure

Procedures that protect individuals in research, assessment and evaluation.

Identifying and Securing Resources

Grant writing

Models of Community Health Assessment

Models and general resources for assessing community health.

Presenting Data

Communicating with data, designing fact sheets, and media communications.

Program Planning and Evaluation

Program evaluation, program planning, and social marketing

Qualitative Methods

Techniques for gathering and analyzing non-numeric data, e.g. document review, focus groups, interviews.

Setting Health Priorities

Indicators, prioritizing techniques, setting objectives

Software for Data Analysis

Resources on software used to analyze data as opposed to the data analysis itself.

Surveys

Techniques for developing and utilizing surveys and questionnaires.

Here are some other collections of resources that might prove useful to the assessment community.

Glossary

A collection of terms and their definitions for community health assessment, ranging from general public health terms and associations to more detailed epidemiological concepts.