Des Moines Valley Community Health Assessment and Planning

Cottonwood, Jackson

Priority health issues (2025)

This community health board noted the following priority health issues in 2025:

• Access to mental care services
• Health inequity of specific populations
• Neighborhood and built environment (quality of housing, transportation access, access to healthy foods, neighborhood crime and safety)     

Community health improvement plan

A community health improvement plan guides a community health board and its community partners on work to improve the health of its population.

Des Moines Valley Community Health Improvement Plan 2025-2029

Contact member health departments

• Des Moines Valley Health and Human Services