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A community health needs assessment (CHNA) is an ongoing, dynamic process aimed at identifying the assets, strengths and needs of communities.
This assessment helps establish health and wellness priorities and improve the population’s health status.
The main objective of a CHNA is to compile a list of priority health and wellness needs that will assist decision-makers in planning resources in the community.
Spotlight
- 2022–2023 Evaluation Report - BOUCTOUCHE | RICHIBUCTO | SAINT-ANTOINE
- 2018-2019 Community Health Needs Assessment - KEDGWICK | SAINT-QUENTIN
- 2023 Evaluation Report - Community Health Needs Assessment - DALHOUSIE | BALMORAL | BELLEDUNE
- 2022 Evaluation Report - Community Health Needs Assessment - SHIPPAGAN | LAMÈQUE | INKERMAN
The CHNA process
The steps of the CHNA process were developed in accordance with the New Brunswick Community Health Needs Assessment Guidelines (GNB, 2018). From a high-level perspective, the CHNA process consists of five key activities:
The CHNA approach
CHNAs help provide basic information on the health and wellness of communities and the factors that influence their overall health. From this point of view, the CHNA process must be approached from a population health perspective.
The population health approach aims to improve the health status of the entire population and reduce health inequalities between different population groups.
Communities assessed by Vitalité Health Network
CHNAs are done for each of the communities defined by the New Brunswick Health Council (NBHC), which divides New Brunswick into 33 communities. Vitalité Health Network covers 13 of those communities.
Zone 1B – Beauséjour
1. Bouctouche, Richibucto, Saint-Antoine Area
2. Dieppe and Memramcook
3. Moncton and surrounding area
4. Shediac, Beaubassin-East and Saint-Antoine
Zone 4 – Northwest
5. Edmundston, Rivière-Verte, Lac Baker Area
6. Grand-Falls, Saint-Léonard, Drummond Area
7. Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin, Grimmer Area
Zone 5 – Restigouche
8. Campbellton, Atholville, Tide Head Area
9. Dalhousie, Balmoral, Belledune Area
Zone 6 – Acadie-Bathurst
10. Bathurst, Beresford, Petit-Rocher Area
11. Caraquet, Paquetville, Bertrand Area
12. Shippagan, Lamèque, Inkerman Area
13. Tracadie-Sheila, Saumarez, Saint-Isidore Area
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