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 Needsexternal icon
- Community Health Assessment and Group Evaluation (CHANGE) pdf icon
- Community Health Assessment Toolkit external icon
- Community Health Improvement Hubexternal icon
- County Health Rankings and Roadmapsexternal icon
- Improving Population Health by Working with Communities—Action Guide external icon
- MAP-IT external icon (Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track)
- Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) external icon
- Practical Playbook external icon
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 Rankingsexternal icon
- Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI 2015)
- Community Need Index™ external icon
- Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care external icon
- Health Indicators Warehouse external icon
- Health System Data Center external icon
- Vulnerable Populations Footprint external icon
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 Roadmapsexternal icon
- Georgia Health Policy Center Sustainability Frameworkpdf iconexternal icon
- Improving Community Health through Hospital–Public Health Partnershipspdf iconexternal icon
- Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health (Institute of Medicine 2012)external icon
- Principles to Consider for the Implementation of a Community Health Needs Assessment Process (Rosenbaum 2013) pdf iconexternal icon
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize Criteriaexternal icon
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 Principlespdf iconexternal icon 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 forumpdf iconexternal icon
- Early Logic Models for Community Health Improvementpdf icon
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.