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2 | Orange County Community Health Assessment - Executive Summary <br /> <br />The 2011 Community Health Assessment (CHA) is intended <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. <br />The Orange County Health Department, and the Healthy <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 />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 />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 Department <br />locations in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. Please contact the <br />Healthy Carolinians Coordinator for a digital copy on CD-ROM. <br />Community Health Assessment <br />Introduction to Community Health Assessment <br />Acknowledgements <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.