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
Access to health care services
Access to mental health care services
Uninsured and/or underinsured
Immunizations
Oral health
Asthma (pediatric)
Asthma (adult)
Chronic disease
Obesity
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)
Substance use: Other prescription drugs
Substance use: General
Adolescent/youth high-risk behavior
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
Breastfeeding
Bullying
Child maltreatment
Childcare access and affordability
Children and youth with special health needs
Parenting-family systems
Teen pregnancy
Air/air quality
Climate
Environmental disasters and emergencies
Food safety
Groundwater quality
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
