Community Themes and Strengths Assessment (CTSA): provides qualitative information on how communities perceive their health and quality of life concerns as well as their knowledge of community assets and resources. The CTSA identifies community thoughts, experiences, opinions and concerns by asking questions such as What is important to the community? and What assets does the community have that can be used to improve community health?
Community Health Status Assessment: provides quantitative data on an array of health indicators that reflect a broad definition of health. Categories of data that are typically examined include: 1)demographic characteristics, 2) socioeconomic characteristics, 3) social determinants of health inequity, 4) health resource availability, 5) quality of life, 6) behavioral risk factors, 7) environmental health indicators, 8) social and mental health, 9) maternal and child health, 10) death, illness and injury, and 11) infectious disease.
Forces of change: provides an analysis of the positive and negative external forces that impact the promotion and protection of the public’s health. Forces can be trends, factors or events such as growing ethnic population or passage of new legislation.
Local Public Health Systems Assessment: is completed using the local instrument of the National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP). The NPHPSP instrument measures how well public health system partners collaborate to provide public health services based on a nationally recognized set of performance standards.
