This assessment focuses on all the organizations and entities that contribute to the public's health. The LPHSA answers the questions:
What are the components, activities, competencies, and capacities of our local public health system?
How are the essential services being provided to our community?
Community Health Status Assessment: This assessment identifies priority community health and quality-of-life issues. Questions answered include:
a. How healthy are our residents?
b. What does the health status of our community look like?
Forces of Change Assessment: This assessment focuses on identifying forces such as legislation, technology, and other impending changes that affect the context in which the community and its public health system operate. This answers the questions:
a. What is occurring or might occur that affects the health of our community or the local public health system?
b. What specific threats or opportunities are generated by these occurrences?