north coast community assessment
DESCRIPTION
This is a presentation I created to share the North Coast Breast Health Community Needs Assessment. This presentation focus on how communities can utilize the needs assessment as a tool to decrease breast health disparities along the North Oregon Coast.TRANSCRIPT
North Coast Breast Health Community Assessment: Needs, Assets & Opportunities
Objectives•Learn about a new community tool •How it can help your community •Identify ways to strengthen access to breast health resources
Why do a Breast Health Assessment?
•Better understand the breast
cancer health disparities in rural
Oregon communities
•Create a new community tool
•Build a bridge between research
and community
Methodology•Information was collected for each county from multiple sources including:
•County Snap Shots
•Key Informant Interviews
•Breast Health Network
How this tool can help your community
•Better understand breast cancer health
disparities & why they exist
•Collected new information
•Distance to MMG maps
Distance to Mammography Map
61 to 180 minutes31 to 60 minutes0 to 30 minutes
Legend:
Community Need Index (CNI) maps
http://www.chwhealth.org/Who_We_Are/Community_Health/STGSS044508
Next Steps•Spread the word about the Needs Assessment as a new tool!!!•Create resource inventory to strengthen Breast Health Network•BHTF Resource sub Committee •Development of innovative health education tools
For More Information
Dolly England Community Health EducatorOHSU Knight Cancer Institute
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, CR145Portland, OR 97239
direct 503.494.3389 | cell 971-340-9247 | fax 503.494.7086 | [email protected]