Health Statistics

BEGIN HERE to use these headings to write your Community Assessment paper, use each heading as a heading for your paper and STOP where it says Learning Materials. You can use any of the links on this page as tools to complete your paper: MY COMMUNITY IS

Livingston County Michigan

Defining the Community

Your community can be any geographically defined county, city, or town. Clearly delineate the following dimensions before starting the process of community assessment:

Describe the population that is being assessed?
What is/are the race(s) of this population within the community?
Are there boundaries of this group? If so, what are they?
Does this community exist within a certain city or county?
Are there general characteristics that separate this group from others?
Education levels, birth/death rates, age of deaths, insured/uninsured?

Where is this group located geographically…? Urban/rural?
Why is a community assessment being performed? What purpose will it serve?

How will information for the community assessment be collected?

Assessment