This is a presentation I created to share the North Coast Breast Health Community Needs Assessment. This presentation focus on how communities can utilize the needs assessment as a tool to decrease breast health disparities along the North Oregon Coast.
Professor Jane South, Leeds Metropolitan University
North Coast Community Assessment
1. North Coast Breast Health
Community Assessment: Needs, Assets
& Opportunities
2. Objectives
•Learn about a new community tool
•How it can help your community
•Identify ways to strengthen access to breast
health resources
3. Why do a Breast Health Assessment?
•Better understand the breast
cancer health disparities in rural
Oregon communities
•Create a new community tool
•Build a bridge between research
and community
5. How this tool can help your
community
•Better understand breast cancer health
disparities & why they exist
•Collected new information
•Distance to MMG maps
7. Community Need Index (CNI) maps
http://www.chwhealth.org/Who_We_Are/Community_Health/STGSS044508
8. Next Steps
•Spread the word about the
Needs Assessment as a new
tool!!!
•Create resource inventory to
strengthen Breast Health
Network
•BHTF Resource sub Committee
•Development of innovative
health education tools
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11. For More Information
Dolly England
Community Health Educator
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, CR145
Portland, OR 97239
direct 503.494.3389 | cell 971-340-9247 | fax 503.494.7086 |
englandd@ohsu.edu
Editor's Notes
General background information was collected for each county from multiple sources including:Oregon Blue BookLocal Government WebPagesOregon Festivals and Events Association Office of Rural Health American Cancer SocietySusan G. Komen for the Cure Oregon & SW Washington National Cancer InstituteOregon Breast and Cervical Cancer ProgramOregon Department of Human Services NCI SEER data National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Oregon State Cancer Registry (OSCaR), The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS)Knight Cancer Institute Catholic Healthcare West’s Community Need Index (CNI) mapsKey Informant InterviewsInformed by all of youDevelopment of Breast Health Network
Catholic Healthcare West’s Community Need Index (CNI) mapsUsing a four-point scale to identify severity of need, the CNI maps pinpoint neighborhoods (by zip code) with significant barriers to health care for each county in our target area.Rather than relying solely on public health data, the CNI accounts for the underlying social and economic barriers that affect overall health. Using a combination of research, literature, and experiential evidence, Catholic Healthcare West identified the following five prominent socio-economic barriers to quantify health care access in communities. Income – percent of elderly, children, and single parents living in poverty.Cultural/Language – percent of adults over the age of 25 with limited English proficiencyEducational – percent without high school diplomaInsurance – percent uninsured and unemployedHousing – percent renting houseshttp://www.chwhealth.org/Who_We_Are/Community_Health/STGSS044508
Show video http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/centers-institutes/octri/current-projects/lets-get-healthy-video.cfm (LGH Video)