Palm Beach County Community Health Assessment Released

The Health Care District of Palm Beach County and the Palm Beach County Health Department provide assistance, guidance and funding in support of The Health Council of Southeast Florida (HCSEF) as it continues to monitor and report the Palm Beach County Community Health Assessment.

A community health needs assessment is a systematic method of identifying unmet health care and human service needs of a population and identifying possible interventions to meet those needs. The initiative was launched in 2012.  Read the 2012 report.

The most recent update from December 2016 report includes secondary data from national, state and local sources. It also includes primary data that encompasses the community’s perspective.

This assessment is a result of the effort, participation, and contributions of a cross section of health and human service organizations, community leaders and stakeholders that came together around the commitment to improve services for the betterment of the community.

This community health assessment provides the opportunity to:

• Assess the population’s health status

• Highlight areas of unmet need

• Present the community’s perspectives

• Provide suggestions for possible interventions

• Highlight recommendations that policymakers might consider when setting new policy goals and objectives for health improvement activities

Communities face the challenge of balancing the desire to provide residents access to quality health and human services in an environment of decreasing resources and increasing demand.

 The 2016 Palm Beach County community health assessment helps provide a better understanding of the needs of the community and aid in planning for services in an effort to most efficiently use resources and improve the health of all residents.

Read the report... (PDF)