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Applying Community Organizing Principles to Assess Health Needs in New Haven, Connecticut
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Applying Community Organizing Principles to Assess Health Needs in New Haven, Connecticut

Alycia Santilli, Amy Carroll-Scott and Jeannette R Ickovics
American journal of public health (1971), v 106(5), pp 841-847
May 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303050
PMID: 26985599
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https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.rr7203a1View
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Abstract

Community-Based Participatory Research - organization & administration Community-Institutional Relations Connecticut Female Health Behavior Health Services Accessibility Health Status Hospitals, Voluntary - organization & administration Humans Information Dissemination Male Needs Assessment - organization & administration Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - legislation & jurisprudence Poverty Areas Public Health Residence Characteristics Social Capital Socioeconomic Factors United States Universities
The Affordable Care Act added requirements for nonprofit hospitals to conduct community health needs assessments. Guidelines are minimal; however, they require input and representation from the broader community. This call echoes 2 decades of literature on the importance of including community members in all aspects of research design, a tenet of community organizing. We describe a community-engaged research approach to a community health needs assessment in New Haven, Connecticut. We demonstrate that a robust community organizing approach provided unique research benefits: access to residents for data collection, reliable data, leverage for community-driven interventions, and modest improvements in behavioral risk. We make recommendations for future community-engaged efforts and workforce development, which are important for responding to increasing calls for community health needs assessments.

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