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Community Health Assessment <br /> Introduction to Community Health Assessment <br /> The 2011 Community Health Assessment(CHA) is intended m <br /> to enable local public health officials and community groups <br /> to monitor trends in health status, identify priorities among <br /> health issues, and determine the availability of resources <br /> within Orange County to adequately address these priorities. <br /> The document seeks to be useful, relevant,actionable,and <br /> both reflective and forward-looking;and to provide ' <br /> information for effective strategic community health planning. 5 E9W y" <br /> The Orange County Health Department,and the Healthys <br /> Carolinians of Orange County(HCOC) Partnership with its 125 <br /> individual members from 80 partner agencies and community <br /> representatives,worked collaboratively to complete the <br /> community health assessment. Information gathered from <br /> nearly 230 community members(through surveys and <br /> il <br /> focus groups),data from local agencies, and county and state <br /> statistics were used to assess the health of the Orange County <br /> community. <br /> .III V VII k ` <br /> This Executive Summary does not include all the details in the " <br /> full report.The full report can be found online at <br /> www.orangecountync.gov/healthycarolinians. Hard copies <br /> of the full report are available at the Chapel Hill,Carrboro, <br /> and Orange County public libraries and at Health Depart ment <br /> locations in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. Please contact the <br /> Healthy Carolinians Coordinator for a digital copy on CD-ROM. <br /> Acknowledge ments <br /> Thanks to the residents of Orange County,the Community Health Assessment Team members and all of the <br /> Healthy Carolinians partners and member agencies who helped to guide and make the assessment a true <br /> community process. <br /> 2 Orange County Community Health Assessment-Executive Summary <br />