Maricopa County Community Health Assessment

The Maricopa County Community Health Improvement Process launched in June 2011 to align and support the National Prevention Strategy, the Arizona Chronic Disease Strategic Plan as well as existing community health improvement initiatives across the County. The 2012-2017 CHIP Framework and Workplan includes more than 90 objectives targeting community health improvement in five priority areas uncovered during an extensive Community Health Assessment process. They are:

Obesity
Diabetes
Lung Cancer
Cardiovascular Disease
Access to Care

The goal of the Maricopa County CHIP is to provide a framework for accountability, community action, and stakeholder engagement to advance the health of all Maricopa County residents. The indicators below show how Maricopa County is measuring up to our desired community health outcomes.

	The colored gauge gives a visual representation of how your community is doing in comparison to other communities. The three-colored dial represents the distribution of values from the reporting regions (e.g. counties in the state) ordered from those doing the best to those doing the worst (sometimes lower values are better and in other cases higher values are better). From that distribution, the green represents the top 50th percentile, the yellow represents the 25th to 50th percentile, and the red represents the "worst" quartile.
	This gauge shows how the County: Maricopa value compares with the median or mean value for all counties in the state (or all US counties). The gauge is blue and white when being higher (or lower) is not necessarily good or bad and is multi-colored when being higher (or lower) is good or bad.
	This gauge shows whether the County: Maricopa value is increasing or decreasing over time. A green arrow means the value is improving and a red arrow means the value is getting worse. The = (equal) sign means that there is not a significant increase or decrease since the last measurement. A blue arrow means the value being higher (or lower) is not necessarily good or bad.