Monitoring Health Status to Identify
and Solve Community Health Problems
This service includes accurate diagnosis of the community’s
health status; identification of threats to health and assessment
of health service needs; timely collection, analysis, and publication
of information on access, utilization, costs, and outcomes of personal
health services; attention to the vital statistics and health status
of specific-groups that are at higher risk than the total population;
and collaboration to manage integrated information systems with
private providers and health benefit plans.
