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THE RESULTS FROM PUBLIC INPUT FOR THE 2015 COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT This brief is part of the Sangamon County Community Health Needs Assessment conducted by Memorial Medical Center, St. John’s Hospital, and the Sangamon County Department of Public Health in collaboration with SIU School of Medicine’s Office of Community Health and Service. The purpose of this report is to synthesize the scope of the information collected during the Community Health Needs Assessment process. If you have any questions about this report, please contact the UIS Survey Research Office at (217) 206-‐ 6591 or
[email protected]. The full report provides detailed findings from the five community health forums as well as the results from the public survey, which allowed members of the Sangamon County community to provide input on the health priority areas in the region.
Access to Care, Child Abuse, Mental Health, and Overweight/Obesity are Top Health Concerns County residents have a variety of health concerns ranging from specific illnesses affecting neighbors and Sangamon embers to the absence of nutrition in the public school educational programs to the lack of access to proper family m healthcare and resources. Yet, when asked to identify the top health priority areas in Sangamon County, four priority areas a re rated most important by the majority of Sangamon County residents. The four health priority areas are: Access to Care, Child Abuse, Mental Health, and Overweight/Obesity. in the figure, As seen Sangamon County Residents' Top Health Priority survey respondents 100% were asked three Areas 86.9% 90% 83.4% different q uestions 78.8% 76.2% aimed a t gauging what 80% they believed to be the 70% top health priority areas 60% in the region. Across the 49.9% three question 44.3% 50% 43.4% variations, these four 34.4% 40% health priority areas the most 24.2% 30% remained 19.0% concerning to Sangamon 14.5% 20% 10.0% County residents. 10% There w ere some 0% differences across Access to Care Child Abuse Mental Health Overweight/Obesity demographic groups Percent rated as a "high priority" (gender, race, and zip Percent rated as "top priority" code). Percent rated as "one of the top three priori_es" A higher percentage of individuals living in 62703 report that food insecurity is a high priority than in any other region. Also, w hile child abuse ranks high in all zip codes, it is ranked as less of a priority area among respondents in 62703 and 62711, 77.5 percent and 72.1 percent, respectively, rank it as a high priority. Almost ninety percent of respondents living in 62629 rank it as a high priority. When we examine whether demographic groups rated health priority areas differently, we only find a few significant differences (chi-‐squares in which significance is p
