| Purpose: |
Likely
users of the Arizona Community Health Profiles may include:
- Community members and
consumers of health care: individuals, families, and representatives
of municipalities, neighborhoods and other geographical areas
- Elected state and local
officials
- Professionals in public
health, clinical care, social services and others
- Community advocates and
organizers
The
information contained in these community health profiles may provide the basis
for actions such as:
- Determining
the level of health that exists within the community
- Discovering
health strengths, problems or needs, and/or interventions to meet health
needs that were not previously understood
- Discover
changes over time (trends) in population, health strengths and problems,
and/or interventions
- Make
comparisons with other communities, the state or the nation
- Examine
relationships between health status and determinants of health (social
environment, behavior, and health care resources)
- Establish
priorities among health problems and/or interventions
- Evaluate
interventions according to various dimensions such as relevance, adequacy,
effectiveness, and impact
- Initiate
interventions directly or indirectly through others or in collaboration
with others
- Decide
how to allocate resources among alternate interventions
- Prepare
and implement individual, institutional and community health improvement
plans
- Bring
community members together around issues of interest; build coalitions and
collaboration.
Because many of the indicators presented in
the profiles are small numbers, the calculated rates are unstable.
However, it is felt important that communities have the information available
to assist in making program decisions and/or to investigate health care issues. The Community Health Profiles
will be updated and
published annually to the Internet starting with the year 2000.
The Community Health Profiles are presented here in Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
format. Click on the map above or the links below to access the
profiles.
2000
Profiles
2001
Profiles
2002
Profiles
2003
Profiles
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