Assessment Outcomes: Community health assessment calls for regularly and systematically collecting, analyzing, and making available information on the health of a com¬munity, including statistics on health status, community health needs, epidemiologic and other studies of health problems. Often this can take the form of community needs assessments.  The outcomes are intended to assist the community in adapting and responding to important health problems and risks. Increasingly, moving beyond problems and deficits toward an analysis of community strengths and resources is becoming recognized as a critical part of understanding a community’s health.

Adapted from: National Association of County and City Health Officials. Advancing Community Public Health Systems in the 21st Century. Washington, DC; 2001.)