Health Planning Tools
- Public Health Prevention Link: Health Planning in the United States: Selected Policy Issues, Report of a Study, Volume I, Institute of Medicine, 1981, p.34.
- Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) - Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships is a six phase process that involves the whole community.
- Strategic Prevention Framework & Communities That Care (SAMHSA) - Strategic Prevention Framework Components: Assessment, Capacity, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, Sustainability and Cultural Competence.
- Healthy People 2020- MAP-IT (Mobilize Assess Plan Implement Track) - Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track (MAP-IT: this framework can be used to plan and evaluate public health interventions to achieve Healthy People 2020 objectives.
- THRIVE- (Prevention Institute Tool for Health and Resilience In Vulnerable Environments) - THRIVE is a tool to help people understand and prioritize the factors within their own communities that can help improve health and safety. The tool identifies key factors and allows a user to rate how important that factor might be in the community.
- CHANGE Tool - Community Health Assessment aNd Group Evaluation (CHANGE): Building a Foundation of Knowledge to Prioritize Community Needs. This tool assesses larger policy, systems, and environments within a community sectors.
- The Community Tool Box (Chapters 3-5) - Contains information about how to assess community needs and resources (e.g. conducting listening sessions, analyzing problems) how to get issues on the public agenda (e.g., gaining public support), and how to choose broad strategies to promote community health and development (e.g., building coalitions).
For information about community health assessments, visit the CDC website
Best Practices for Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Implementation Strategy Development: A Review of Scientific Methods, Current Practices, and Future Potential
