Community Health Status Assessment Subcommittee meeting minutes 6/27/11

We reviewed findings and synopsis for each category:

1. Demographic Characteristics  – aging population, more diversity, report shared
2. Socioeconomic Characteristics  - pending report
3. Health Resource Availability – divide between people with access and without access, there are a lot of people who don’t get to medical care, report shared
4. Quality of Life – report shared
5. Behavioral Risk Factors  – report shared
6. Environmental Health  - report shared
7. Social and Mental Health - report shared
8. Maternal and Child Health   - some data was not local, pending report
9. Death, Illness, and Injury  – leading cause of death, injury, cancer, heart disease, pending report
10. Communicable Disease  – was not able attend, pending report
11. Sentinel Events - pending report

We discussed about next steps:

• Combine all data into a health profile
• Review the health profile & make comments
• Disseminate the health profile and findings for the community
• Discuss indicators to monitor in future and identify challenges

We also talked about Juneau Commission on Sustainability and their sustainability indicators. This might be good information for Juneau MAPP to review.
Their website - http://sustainablejuneau.blogspot.com

Next Juneau MAPP Community Health Status Assessment subcommittee meeting - 2-4pm on 9/12/11 at United Way of Southeast Alaska.

A draft of Juneau Health Profile will be shared with our group members 1-2 weeks before the meeting. Please be prepared to give comments regarding data/findings.