Introduction to Community Health Assessment

Community Health Assessment can be used to collect community health information, at the household-level, required for disaster response or health action plans.

Health and human services professionals need information to make informed decisions as they allocate health resources. Timely access to community health information helps leaders maintain situational awareness, confirm assumptions, and understand community need. The Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) framework (developed by the World Health Organization and adopted by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to plan randomized clusters, conduct health assessments, and monitor progress accordingly was used. This framework has become a common methodology used to understand community need. Community Health Assessment is typically implemented by health and human services agencies or health care organizations that want to use CASPER principles as they conduct health assessments to understand community need.

The Community Health Assessment solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you plan community health survey areas, collect survey responses from random households, and monitor key indicators as the assessment occurs.

Deploy the solution

This ArcGIS solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Community Health Assessment requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Pro 2.9 or later

Information products

Community Health Assessment includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Required user type
Community Health Assessment Planner	An ArcGIS Pro project used by public health agencies to plan community health survey clusters used to conduct assessment surveys.	GIS Professional Basic
Community Health Assessment Manager	A configuration of the Crowdsource Manager app used by assessment managers to assign survey teams.	Editor
Community Health Assessment Survey	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by assessment managers to conduct health assessments.	Mobile Worker
Community Health Assessment Progress Dashboard	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by health and human services managers to monitor survey teams and the progress of a health assessment.	Viewer
Community Health Assessment Dashboard	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by epidemiologists and executives to monitor key indicators as the assessment occurs.	Viewer

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get an ArcGIS solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The ArcGIS solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
1.3 (Jul 2022)	A new Community Health Assessment Planner ArcGIS Pro project. A new Community Health Assessment Survey map.
1.2 (Apr 2022)	A new Community Health Assessment Progress Dashboard app. A new Community Health Assessment Dashboard app. A new Community Health Assessment Planner.
1.1	A new Community Health Assessment Planner ArcGIS Pro project that resolves an issue where a layer reference was missing.
1.0 (Nov 2020)	First release of Community Health Assessment