Community Health Assessment

The Community Health Assessment (CHA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) are road maps that help define the health of the community, identify strategic priorities for community health improvement and highlight assets and resources that are in place to help make those improvements.

The Health Department conducts a CHA every five years, though our most recent iteration has been delayed due to COVID-19 response activities. We are actively working on the next phase of our future community health assessments.

Learn about our process for the next CHA and CHIP at www.healthforallwashtenaw.org. The Health for All website hosts local health data and will be the home for all future community health assessment activities!

Building a Healthier Washtenaw Brochure Cover

Full Document

  1. Building a Healthier Washtenaw - Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan (PDF)

Links to Individual Sections of the Document

  1. Introduction to Individual Sections (PDF)

Community Health Assessment

  1. Demographics and Social and Economic Factors (PDF)
  2. Access to Care (PDF)
  3. Chronic Disease (PDF)
  4. Mental Health (PDF)
  5. Substance Abuse (PDF)
  6. Perinatal Health (PDF)
  7. Infectious Disease (PDF)
  8. Injury (PDF)
  9. Assets and Resources (PDF)

Community Health Improvement Plan (Updated 2014)

  1. Introduction (PDF)
  2. Priority Health Issue - Access to Care (PDF)
  3. Priority Health Issue - Obesity (PDF)
  4. Priority Health Issue - Mental Health (PDF)
  5. Priority Health Issue - Substance Abuse (PDF)
  6. Priority Health Issue - Perinatal Health (PDF)
  7. Priority Health Issue - Vaccine Preventable Diseases (PDF)
  8. Next Steps (PDF)
  9. Appendix (PDF)

Additional Information

Learn more about the Washtenaw County Health Department's community health improvement efforts.