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Needham staff plan summer rollout of multi-town community health survey
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Town of Needham public health staff said a regional community health assessment is moving into primary data collection: community engagement is complete, a core four-town survey is being tested and staff plan a summer launch in Needham with in-person outreach to boost response rates.
Public health staff told the Town of Needham Board of Health on April 1 that a regional community health assessment is entering its survey phase and that Needham’s portion will be released this summer, likely in June.
Julie McCarthy, a member of the public health staff, said the assessment combines secondary data gathered by consultant BME Strategies with primary data from interviews, engagement sessions and a new community survey. "It gives us this idea of where our strengths and weaknesses are and sort of where our biggest health challenges are," she said, describing the CHA as a tool to direct education,…
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