PUTTING TOGETHER DURHAM’S COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT REPORT I N PA RT N E R S H I P W I T H
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he Partnership for a Healthy Durham published identified by the assessments’ data, within the context of its 2017 Community Health Assessment in April concerns expressed by residents in the listening sessions. 2018, and then immediately started work on the Five focal “priorities” were identified before the survey three-year process to gather data for the next report. began: affordable housing; access to care and insurance; In early 2019, community volunteers and staff from the poverty; mental health; and obesity, diabetes and food Durham County Department of Public Health and Duke access. These priorities, identified in 2018 prior to data Health went door to door, opening up a dialogue with collection, will remain priorities, but they could change residents about food based on the community security, discrimination, input from the 2023 access to health care Community Health and other healthAssessment, which will be related topics. More published in 2024. These than 600 people who focus areas were kept live in Durham County for this cycle because the took part in the survey, social determinants of providing data that was health don’t often change compiled, analyzed and and are where more data published as the 2020 is needed, Marissa says. Community Health Kearston Ingraham, Assessment Report. co-chair of the “Community members subcommittee on access are the experts,” says to health care and Marissa Mortiboy, co-author of chapters previous coordinator on immunization and Marissa Mortiboy helps a volunteer prepare to survey residents of Partnership for a cancer in the 2020 in 2019. Healthy Durham and report, explains that population health division director at Durham County the information gathered from Durham residents is Department of Public Health. The assessment is then supplemented by secondary data from agencies such as used to develop a community health improvement plan. The North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics. Getting feedback from residents is still a priority in this “It’s a pretty long process as we get community input, phase – Durhamites are encouraged to participate in and we use the data to develop a report for pretty much listening sessions that will be held through summer 2021. any issue that touches health and how Durham County The final version of the plan will be completed next year residents are impacted,” Marissa says. and addresses the most pressing health priorities as This most recent three-year cycle of data collection
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