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: Cass; Faribault-Martin; Kanabec; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley; Mille Lacs; Nobles; Partnership4Health (Becker, Clay, Otter Tail, Wilkin); Quin County (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); SWHHS (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Polk-Norman-Mahnomen; Rock, Redwood); Horizon; Olmsted
Access to health care services: Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching; Cass; Dakota; Faribault-Martin; Fillmore-Houston; Freeborn; Mower; Olmsted; Pine; Polk-Norman-Mahnomen; Scott; St. Paul-Ramsey; SWHHS (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Rock, Redwood); Washington; Watonwan; Wright
Access to mental health care services: Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching; Blue Earth; Brown-Nicollet; Cass; Des Moines Valley (Cottonwood, Jackson); Faribault-Martin; Freeborn; Horizon (Douglas, Grant, Pope, Stevens, Traverse); Kanabec; Mille Lacs; Nobles; SWHHS (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Polk-Norman-Mahnomen; Rock, Redwood); Wabasha; Olmsted; Isanti
Chronic disease: Brown-Nicollet; Chisago; Faribault-Martin; Freeborn; Le Sueur-Waseca; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley; North Country (Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods); Olmsted; Quin County (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); Scott
Obesity: Brown-Nicollet; Carver; Chisago; Crow Wing; Freeborn; Kanabec; Le Sueur-Waseca; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley; North Country (Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods); Pine; Healthy Quin Counties (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); Rice; Winona, Horizon
Mental health: Anoka; Beltrami; Benton; Bloomington; Blue Earth; Brown Nicollet; Carlton-Cook-Lake-St. Louis; Carver; Cass; Chisago; Countryside (Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine); Crow Wing; Dakota; Dodge-Steele; Edina; Faribault-Martin; 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
Substance use: Opioids (heroin, prescription): Anoka; Olmsted; Minneapolis; St. Paul-Ramsey
Substance use: Tobacco and secondhand smoke: Countryside (Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine); Kanabec; Le Sueur-Waseca; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley; Pine; Quin County (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); St. Paul-Ramsey; Wabasha; Watonwan; Anoka
Substance use: Other illicit drugs (meth, cocaine): Countryside (Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine); Olmsted
Substance use: Other prescription drugs
Substance use: General: Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching; Beltrami; Brown-Nicollet; Carlton-Cook-Lake-St. Louis; Carver; Cass; Chisago; Crow Wing; Dodge-Steele; Faribault-Martin; Freeborn; Goodhue; Horizon (Douglas, Grant, Pope, Stevens, Traverse); Isanti; Kanabec; Kandiyohi-Renville; Le Sueur-Waseca; Meeker-McLeod-Sibley; Mille Lacs; Morrison-Todd-Wadena; Mower; Nobles; North Country (Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods); Pine; Polk-Norman-Mahnomen; Scott; Wabasha; Watonwan; Dakota
Groundwater quality: Mille Lacs; Morrison-Todd-Wadena; St. Paul-Ramsey; SWHHS: Southwest Health & Human Services (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock); Winona
Education (high school graduation, educational attainment, early childhood education): Beltrami
Health inequity of specific populations: Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching; Carver; Des Moines Valley (Cottonwood, Jackson); SWHHS (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Rock, Redwood)
Homelessness: Minneapolis; Mower; Nobles; Olmsted; St. Paul-Ramsey; Watonwan
Incarceration: Mille lacs
Neighborhood and built environment (quality of housing, transportation access, access to healthy foods, neighborhood crime and safety): Beltrami; Bloomington; Brown-Nicollet; Cass; Chisago; Countryside (Big Stone, Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift, Yellow Medicine); Des Moines Valley (Cottonwood, Jackson); Edina; Fillmore-Houston; Freeborn; Hennepin; Horizon (Douglas, Grant, Pope, Stevens, Traverse); Le Sueur-Waseca; Minneapolis; Morrison-Todd-Wadena; Rice; Richfield; Scott; SWHHS: Southwest Health & Human Services (Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock); Washington; Watonwan
Social connectedness: Aitkin-Itasca-Koochiching; Beltrami; Carver; Goodhue; Hennepin; Isanti; Minneapolis; Wright
Technology access (high-speed internet)
Eating habits: Crow Wing; Le Sueur-Waseca; St. Paul-Ramsey
Physical activity: Brown-Nicollet; Chisago; Crow Wing; Dakota; Kanabec; Le Sueur-Waseca; Healthy Quin Counties (Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau); St. Paul-Ramsey; Horizon
