Definitions 

• • • • Demographics: Demographic information means types of identifying facets, such as age, race and ethnicity, sex, disability, and socio-economic information. Here are common types of demographic and community data: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pha-guidance/toolbox/common_types_of_demographic_and_community_data.html
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      • Socioeconomic need: “Socioeconomic status refers to the absolute or relative levels of economic resources, power, and prestige closely associated with wealth of an individual, community, or country. It is a multidimensional construct comprising multiple factors, such as income, education, employment status, and other factors.” Learn more here: https://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/health_equity/socioeconomic.htm
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      • Assets and community strengths: in addition to gaps and needs, assets and strengths are identified and leveraged, including human capital and physical and social resources (e.g., parks, trails, charities, churches, food banks) These are entities that can provide skills, talents, support, and connectivity to needs within community.
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      • Secondary data: Our community health assessment will use both primary and secondary data to characterize the community's health. Secondary data is data collected by another entity for another purpose.
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      • Healthy People 2030:  https://health.gov/our-work/national-health-initiatives/healthy-people/healthy-people-2030
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      • Significant health needs: The following criteria will be used to identify significant health needs: 1) The size of the problem (relative proportion affected by the problem) and 2) The seriousness of the problem (impact at an individual, family, and community levels).
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      • Community input: Community input is the primary data that will be collected across our service area and is designed to validate the secondary data findings, identify additional community issues, solicit information on disparities among subpopulations, ascertain community assets potentially available to address needs and discover gaps in resources. This input will be compiled from focus groups, surveys, and key informant interviews from community stakeholders, public health and service providers, members of the medically underserved, low-income, and minority populations in the community, and individuals or organizations serving or representing the interests of such populations.
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      • Community Context and Community Partners Assessments:
        • The Community Context Assessment (CCA) is a qualitative data assessment tool aimed at harnessing the unique insights, expertise, and perspectives of individuals and communities directly impacted by social systems to improve the functioning and impact of those systems.
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        • The Community Partners Assessment (CPA) is an assessment process that allows all the community partners involved in MAPP to critically look at 1) their own individual systems, processes, and capacities and 2) their collective capacity as a network/across all community partners to address health inequities.

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      • Community Health Worker/Promotora: A community health worker is a frontline worker who is a trusted member of and/or has an unusually close understanding of the community served. This trusting relationship enables the worker to serve as a liaison/link/intermediary between health/social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery. A community health worker also builds individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support and advocacy.”