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: Des Moines Valley (Cottonwood, Jackson); Dodge-Steele; Faribault-Martin; Fillmore-Houston; Kanabec; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley; Mille Lacs; Nobles; Partnership4Health (Becker, Clay, Otter Tail, Wilkin); Quin County (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); Scott; Washington; Horizon; Olmsted; Wright
Access to health care services: Benton; Carlton-Cook-Lake-St. Louis; Cass; Dakota; Faribault-Martin; Fillmore; Houston; Freeborn; Hennepin; Kandiyohi-Renville; Mower; Olmsted; Pine; Polk-Norman-Mahnomen; Scottl Sherburne; St. Paul-Ramsey; Stearns; Wabasha; Washington; Watonwan
Access to mental health care services: Blue Earth; Brown-Nicollet; Carlton-Cook-Lake-St. Louis; Cass; Freeborn; Goodhue; Horizon (Douglas, Grant, Pope, Stevens, Traverse); Kanabec; Mille Lacs; Nobles; Scott; Wabasha; Olmsted; Isanti
Immunizations: Blue Earth; Des Moines Valley (Cottonwood, Jackson); Freeborn; Rice
Oral health: Brown-Nicollet; Chisago; Nobles; Southwest Health & Human Services (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock); Watonwan
Asthma (pediatric)
Asthma (adult)
Chronic disease: Brown-Nicollet; Chisago; Des Moines Valley; Faribault-Martin; Fillmore-Houston; Freeborn; Goodhue; Hennepin; Le Sueur-Waseca; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley; Mower; North Country (Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods); Olmsted; Quin County (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); Scott; Wright
Obesity: Brown-Nicollet; Carlton-Cook-Lake-St. Louis; Carver; Cass; Chisago; Crow Wing; Des Moines Valley (Cottonwood, Jackson); Dodge-Steele; Freeborn; Goodhue; Kanabec; Kandiyohi-Renville; Le Sueur-Waseca; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley; Mower; North Country (Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods); Pine; Polk; Norman-Mahnomen; Quin County (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); Rice; Scott; Southwest Health & Human Services (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock), Winona, Horizon
Mental health: Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching; Anoka; Beltrami; Benton; Bloomington; Blue Earth; Brown Nicollet; Carver; Cass; Chisago; Countryside (Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine); Crow Wing; Dakota; Des Moines Valley (Cottonwood, Jackson); Dodge-Steele; Edina; Faribault-Martin; Fillmore-Houston; 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; Sherburne; St. Paul-Ramsey; Stearns; SWHHS: Southwest Health & Human Services (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock); Wabasha; Washington; Watonwan; Winona; Wright
Environmental disasters and emergencies: Fillmore-Houston; Hennepin
Food safety
Groundwater quality: Mille Lacs; Morrison-Todd-Wadena; St. Paul-Ramsey; SWHHS: Southwest Health & Human Services (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock); Winona
Lead
Radon
Soil
Surface water quality
Vector borne disease
Aging population: Carlton-Cook-Lake-St. Louis, Crow Wing, Hennepin, Isanti, Kandiyohi-Renville, Mille Lacs, Morrison-Todd-Wadena, Pine, Polk-Norman-Mahnomen, SWHHS: Southwest Health & Human Services (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock), Wabasha
