2011 Community Health Assessment

Hello,

The Lake County General Health District seeks to continually provide efficient, cost-effective, and evidence based services to the residents and communities within Lake County. The declining economic environment over the last several has led to an increased number of residents unable to access health services and many community based agencies to lack the resources necessary to meet these needs.

The purpose of the Lake County General Health District’s 2011 Community Health Assessment is three fold; (1) It allows the Health District to meet the current needs of the community, based on actual data, by providing services relevant to our residents, (2) It allows prevention programs to better tailored to specific populations (i.e people ages 35-45 versus people ages 65 and older), (3) It allows us to utilize the data in preparing for Federal and State grants to support critical services in Lake County. Furthermore, there is an inherent benefit to conducting one community health assessment, developed by multiple stakeholders, so that questions and results may be share with countless community based agencies and political leaders to help each of them make informed decisions.

The Lake County General Health District would like to extend its gratitude to all of the community agencies and professionals who donated their time and resources to make this assessment a success, as well as, the residents of Lake County who took the time to complete the survey and helped to be part of our efforts to improve services within Lake County.

DID YOU KNOW:
Research indicates that males are much less likely to complete surveys than women, our 2011 Lake County Community Health Assessment proved the same. A total of 2,568 respondents participated in the 2011 LCCHA. Nearly three-quarters (73.8%, 1669 respondents) of the survey respondents were female while 26.2% (593 respondents) were male.

In order to elimate this problem in the future we would like to know what would encourage more males to complete a survey to improve health options in Lake County. Please let us know what we should do?