Thank you for writing us at the Community Tool Box. It is good that you are planning a community health assessment. In choosing groups to be included in such as assessment, it’s helpful to include those groups that would be most affected by the results of the assessment when it is completed. Who might those groups be? Health affects everyone, but in most communities the it would include those most likely to be consumers of local health services, which would mean seniors and children, as well as those with known illness or disabilities, Another key group would be those most likely to affect health policy decisions in the future, such as heads of local health agencies. And a third key group would of course those who are providing health services themselves.
You may also benefit from reviewing several of the instructional Sections in the Tool Box found in Chapter 3, “Assessing Community Needs and Resources.”
We hope these comments may be helpful to you. Thank you again for writing to us, and all best wishes for continued success in your work.
