Community Health Status Assessment | Sullivan County Regional Health Department

Introduction to Sullivan County’s Community Health Status Assessment (CHSA)

Improving health is a shared responsibility of health care providers and public health officials, as well as a variety of organizations and individuals who contribute to the well-being of our community. No single entity can make a community healthy. So much more can be accomplished by working together with a common vision to improve health. To that end this document has been prepared to provide a foundation on which to implement change to work towards a healthier community and Sullivan County.

This assessment serves as the first step of the MAPP process, a detailed model of MAPP is depicted below:

This report begins with a community description with detailed demographic information and is followed with descriptions and detailed data for important health indicators including:

• Access to Health Care
• Quality of Life
• Behavioral Risk Factors
• Environmental Health
• Social and Mental Health
• Maternal and Child Health
• Death, Illness and Injury
• Communicable Disease.