Additional Tools and Resources

Community Health Improvement (CHI) Overview

Following are additional tools and resources that will help you throughout your collaborative community health improvement (CHI) efforts, including guidance on how to conduct community health needs assessments (CHNAs), community health assessments (CHAs), and much more:

• Assessing and Addressing Community Health Needs
• Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE)
• Community Health Assessment Toolkit
• Community Health Improvement Hub
• County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
• Improving Population Health by Working with Communities—Action Guide
• MAP-IT  (Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track)
• Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)
• Practical Playbook

Potential Data Sources

The following resources provide data that may guide your CHNA efforts. Consider using local data sources—such as focus groups and town hall meetings with community members and stakeholders, hospital data on service utilization, local environmental, community and social services data, and local health department data.

• County Health Rankings
• Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI 2015)
• Community Need Index™
• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
• Health Indicators Warehouse
• Health System Data Center
• Vulnerable Populations Footprint

CHI Guiding Principles

The following resources contain additional information about the underlying principles of collaborative CHI. The key concepts found in the Tools for Successful CHI Efforts section were derived from a review of these guiding principles.

• County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
• Georgia Health Policy Center Sustainability Framework
• Improving Community Health through Hospital–Public Health Partnerships
• Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health (Institute of Medicine 2012)
• Principles to Consider for the Implementation of a Community Health Needs Assessment Process (Rosenbaum 2013)
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize Criteria

CHI Framework Tools and Resources

Are you still looking for additional tools to suit your community’s particular needs or preferences after reviewing the tools listed in Tools for Successful CHI Efforts ? If so, consider the following tools and resources found in the following nine sections:

Historical Information

The following resources informed the development of the Sara Rosenbaum Principles and thus, indirectly, the key concepts shown in Tools for Successful CHI Efforts .

• Best Practices for Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy Development: archived information from 2011 CDC public forum ; PHI proceedings from CDC 2011 public forum
• Early Logic Models for Community Health Improvement

The additional tools and resources listed do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.