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What goes around comes around: Planning for the next CHA/CHIP report cycle
Have you recently submitted your Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHA/CHIP)? Congratulations! That calls for a celebration! And it’s a great time to start thinking about what steps you’ll take for the next one. You may be surprised how fast five years can go by in the world of public health. Here are a few tips to make sure you are staying on track to avoid rushing at the end.
One way to incorporate more coffee into your workday
If I asked you to raise your virtual hand if you love coffee, I am sure many of you reading this would have a hand up. Now what if I asked you to raise your hand if you love conducting assessments for public health programs? While assessments are important and can be enjoyable, there may not be as many hands that quickly raise up. What if you could combine the two for a public health assessment tool?
From Data to Wisdom: Applying Quantitative and Qualitative Data
In public health, we are continuously looking over or collecting data to better understand the needs of our community. But does having data mean we understand a community?
Exploring Creative Ways to Collect Data: Dot Voting
Are you a public health professional tired of using the same method over and over again to collect data? You may be one of the many who are constantly requesting others to fill a quick survey, give an interview, or participate in a focus group. While these are effective data collection methods, everything is better in moderation. In this post, we are not discouraging those platforms or methods but simply exploring other creative data collection methods such as the dot voting method.