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  • Housing and Planning for a Healthy Public: Land Use, Design, and Development to Promote Health Equity

    This policy brief makes the case for formalizing planning-public health partnerships at the municipal level in Connecticut and identifies potential policy strategies that such partnerships could advance to improve conditions to promote health and health equity.

    Apr. 30, 2012

    Health, Housing

  • 2012 Community Needs Assessment: A Focus Group Report for the Communities of Meriden and Wallingford

    The purpose of the 2012 Community Needs Assessment was to explore the needs of residents living in Meriden and Wallingford to address the needs that were identified and determine the best use of MidState and the United Way's resources. After analyzing the data gathered in the focus groups, a number of issues arose, including those related to: mental health services and health care issues, basic needs, housing, and transportation.

    Mar. 31, 2012

    Health

  • Healthy Hartford: A Community Health Needs Assessment

    The Community Health Needs Assessment (“CHNA”) process for Hartford began in October 2010. In order to complete the community health needs assessment the Consortium contracted with Holleran, a health research consulting firm, to complete a secondary data analysis and to conduct telephone interviews of 59 Key Informants identified by the steering committee of the CHNA group.From these various data sources we are able to present a framework to better understand the importance of social determinants of health, which refer to factors and resources that are essential to the health o

    Mar. 31, 2012

    Health

  • Improving Delivery of Pubic Services

    This report focuses on finding longer-term solutions to the effective and efficient delivery of public services in Connecticut. Connecticut’s local expenditures (now at $12 billion per year) have been growing faster than the median income in Connecticut, which makes it especially important to take alcloser look at how municipal and education services are delivered on a local level. This is part 4 of a six-part series, "Framework for Connecticut's Fiscal Future."

    Feb. 1, 2012

    Education, Health, Housing, Public Safety

  • Creating a Healthy and Safe City: The Impact of Violence in New Haven

    The New Haven Public Health Department and the Health Equity Alliance are addressing community violence as a public health matter. This report, which includes recommendations based on data, was issued as part of Health Matters! — a city initative to use data to address local health issues.

    Dec. 31, 2011

    All DataHaven Programs, Health

  • New Haven Health Department 2011 Annual Report

    The NHHD's annual report outlines the various programs and services offered by the department, as well as presenting statistics about health challenges in the city.

    Dec. 31, 2011

    Health

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