Community Health Assessment and Planning Priority Health Issues Across Minnesota
All Minnesota community health boards are required by law to take part in assessment and planning. This process identifies local health priorities and guides where resources should be focused.
If a community health board hasn’t listed an issue as a top priority in its community health assessment, it doesn’t mean they aren’t working on it in other ways. It simply means they’ve identified other issues that need more immediate or focused attention.
Which issues are community health boards addressing?
Which community health boards are working on the same issue?
The list below shows categories of health issues identified as top priorities. Expand each category to view specific issues and the community health boards addressing them.
Access to dental care services: Cass; Faribault-Martin; Kanabec; Mille Lacs; Nobles; Partnership4Health (Becker, Clay, Otter Tail, Wilkin); Quin County (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); SWHHS (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Polk-Norman-Mahnomen; Rock, Redwood); Horizon
Access to health care services: Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching; Cass; Central MN Alliance (Benton, Sherburne, Stearns); Dakota; Faribault-Martin; Fillmore-Houston; Freeborn; Mower; Olmsted; Pine; Polk-Norman-Mahnomen; Scott; St. Paul-Ramsey; SWHHS (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Rock, Redwood); Washington; Watonwan; Wright; Rice
Access to mental health care services: Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching; Blue Earth; Cass; Des Moines Valley (Cottonwood, Jackson); Faribault-Martin; Freeborn; Horizon (Douglas, Grant, Pope, Stevens, Traverse); Kanabec; Mille Lacs; Nobles; SWHHS (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Polk-Norman-Mahnomen; Rock, Redwood); Wabasha; Isanti
Uninsured and/or underinsured
Immunizations: Blue Earth; Freeborn
Oral health: Chisago; Nobles; Watonwan
Asthma (pediatric)
Asthma (adult)
Chronic disease: Brown; Chisago; Faribault-Martin; Freeborn; Le Sueur-Waseca; North Country (Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods); Quin County (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); Scott; St. Paul-Ramsey; Minneapolis; Goodhue
Obesity: Carver; Chisago; Crow Wing; Freeborn; Kanabec; Le Sueur-Waseca; North Country (Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods); Pine; Healthy Quin Counties (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); Winona, Horizon
Mental health: Anoka; Beltrami; Bloomington; Blue Earth; Brown Nicollet; Carlton-Cook-Lake-St. Louis; Carver; Cass; Central MN Alliance (Benton, Sherburne, Stearns); Chisago; Countryside (Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine); Crow Wing; Dakota; Dodge-Steele; Edina; Faribault-Martin; Freeborn; Goodhue; Hennepin; Horizon (Douglas, Grant, Pope, Stevens, Traverse); Isanti; Kanabec; Kandiyohi-Renville; Le Sueur-Waseca; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley; Mille Lacs; Minneapolis; Morrison-Todd-Wadena; Mower; Nobles; North Country (Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods); Olmsted; Partnership4Health (Becker, Clay, Otter Tail, Wilkin); Pine; Polk-Norman-Mahnomen; Rice; Richfield; Scott; St. Paul-Ramsey; SWHHS: Southwest Health & Human Services (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock); Wabasha; Washington; Watonwan; Winona
Education (high school graduation, educational attainment, early childhood education): Beltrami
Health inequity of specific populations: Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching; Carver; Des Moines Valley (Cottonwood, Jackson); SWHHS (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Rock, Redwood)
Homelessness: Mower; Nobles; Watonwan
Incarceration: Mille lacs
Neighborhood and built environment (quality of housing, transportation access, access to healthy foods, neighborhood crime and safety): Beltrami; Bloomington; Cass; Chisago; Countryside (Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine); Des Moines Valley (Cottonwood, Jackson); Edina; Fillmore-Houston; Freeborn; Hennepin; Horizon (Douglas, Grant, Pope, Stevens, Traverse); Le Sueur-Waseca; Minneapolis; Morrison-Todd-Wadena; Rice; Richfield; Scott; SWHHS: Southwest Health & Human Services (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock); Washington; Watonwan
Social connectedness: Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching; Beltrami; Carver; Central MN Alliance (Benton, Sherburne, Stearns); Goodhue; Hennepin; Isanti; Wright; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley
Technology access (high-speed internet)
Eating habits: Crow Wing; Le Sueur-Waseca; St. Paul-Ramsey; Goodhuge
Physical activity: Chisago; Crow Wing; Dakota; Kanabec; Le Sueur-Waseca; Healthy Quin Counties (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); St. Paul-Ramsey; Horizon; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley
