What is local public health working on right now?
Hennepin Community Health Assessment and Planning
Bloomington, Edina, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, and Richfield operate as separate community health boards.
Priority health issues (2020)
This community health board noted the following priority health issues in 2020, and is specifically addressing the starred issues in its community health improvement plan.
- Access to health care services
- Aging population
- Chronic disease
- Climate
- Economic stability (poverty, employment, food security, housing stability)
- Environmental disasters and emergencies
- * Health inequity of specific populations
- Infectious disease (TB, STIs, measles)
- * Mental health
- * Neighborhood and built environment (quality of housing, transportation access, access to healthy foods, neighborhood crime and safety)
- Substance use: General
Community health improvement plan and key strategies
A community health improvement plan (CHIP) guides a community health board and its community partners on work to improve the health of its population.
The CHIP was developed through a joint effort of Bloomington, Edina, Richfield, Minneapolis, and Hennepin County. The CHIP addresses complex health issues and aims to reverse health and racial inequities. It does this by partnering with communities, public health agencies, health systems and clinics, housing developers and providers, spiritual, faith, and cultural communities, schools, and human service organizations.