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
Suicide
Substance use: Alcohol
Substance use: E-cigarettes
Substance use: Marijuana
Substance use: Opioids (heroin, prescription)
Substance use: Tobacco and secondhand smoke
Substance use: Other illicit drugs (meth, cocaine)
