Community Assessment

The Community Health Alliance maximizes efforts to facilitate change by focusing its community health initiatives on vulnerable target populations such as the uninsured and underserved, the working poor, the hard-to-reach due to language and cultural challenges, and those affected by barriers involving poverty, education, employment and discrimination.

Of particular concern are populations with disparities in health outcomes. Disparities in health outcomes are differences in the health outcomes of racial and ethnic minorities compared to whites or the county as a whole. There are a number of factors impacting health outcomes including socioeconomic, personal and environmental factors, barriers to access to care and differences in the health care received.

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