| Measure 1.1.1 SPHAB Accreditation |
Standards |
Description |
A state partnership that develops a comprehensive state community health assessment of the population of the state
Purpose | |
The purpose of this measure is to assess the state health department’s collaborative process for sharing and analyzing data and information concerning state health, state health challenges, and state resources to develop a state level community health assessment.
Significance | |
The development of a state community health assessment requires partnerships with other organizations in order to access data, provide various perspectives in the analysis of data and determination of contributing factors that impact health outcomes, present data and findings, and share a commitment for using the assessment. Assets and resources in the state must be addressed in the assessment, as well
as health challenges. Data are not limited to traditional public health data but may include information, for example, quality of life, attitudes about health behavior, socioeconomic factors, environmental factors (including the built environment), and social determinants of health. Data are provided from a variety of sources and through various methods of data collection.
Guidance |
The state health department must document that the process for the development of a state level community health
assessment includes participation of partners outside of the health department that represent state populations and state
health challenges. The collaboration must include various sectors of the state, as appropriate for the state: for example, state government (for example, community development, education, aging, etc.), for-profits (for example, businesses, industries, and major employers in the state), statewide not-for -profits (for example, hospital association, Kids Count, Childhood and Women’s Death Review organizations, Cancer Society, public health institutes, environmental public health groups, groups that represent minority health, etc.), voluntary organizations, health care representatives (for example, hospital associations or primary care associations), academia, military installations in the state, and representatives of local or regional health departments in the state and of Tribal health departments in the state.