New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 52 - PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN NEW JERSEY
Subchapter 10 - MONITOR HEALTH STATUS
Section 8:52-10.2 - Community health assessment
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) To minimize costs and for consistency with existing data, the minimum unit of analysis for New Jersey shall be the county. This does not preclude any municipality from performing its own less formal assessment in addition to participating in the countywide or multi-countywide Community Health Assessment. This less formal assessment can be integrated into the countywide or multi-countywide assessment and/or used for other local public health programming purposes.
(b) A formal countywide or multi-countywide Community Health Assessment shall be performed and continually evaluated with a formal update every four years. Existing community health assessments meeting the criteria set forth in this section shall be valid until a new assessment is performed.
(c) Local health agencies shall submit a description of the Community Health Assessment process and the timeframe for its completion to the Office of Local Health for review and approval prior to initiating the assessment. This process description shall be submitted to the Office of Local Health by February 18, 2004 and every fours years thereafter.
(d) The formal countywide or multi-countywide Community Health Assessment shall be conducted in accordance with standardized methodologies approved by the Office of Local Health. Such methodologies include "Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships" (MAPP). The Community Health Assessment shall include, but not be limited to, the following elements:
(e) The results of the countywide or multi-countywide Community Health Assessment shall be published in a "County Health Status Indicators Report." The results shall be presented in a manner that is sensitive and appropriate to individual, family, and community needs, language, and culture. The Report shall contain: