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San Francisco releases 2016 Community Health Assessment, flags economic barriers and racial inequities
Summary
Department of Public Health presented the 2016 Community Health Assessment outlining methods (data analysis, prior-assessment review, community engagement), identifying two foundational issues (economic barriers and racial health inequities) and seven priority needs; staff will draft a community health improvement plan due mid-2016.
Michelle Kurian, who leads the Community Health Assessment Impact Unit, presented the 2016 Community Health Assessment to the Health Commission, describing three data-collection methods (secondary population-health analysis, assessment of prior assessments and community engagement) and saying the study analyzed 177 variables and screened 46 prior assessments (21 met inclusion criteria).
Kurian said the assessment identified two cross-cutting foundational issueseconomic barriers to health and racial health…
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