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The Healthy Hall Partnership has organized its evaluation around
four major areas of inquiry—health, safety and security, connections
to the community and confidence in the future.
Without good physical health, no person or group can be truly
healthy. To evaluate health in Hall County, the Healthy Hall effort
evaluated access to care, personal health practices and attitudes that
contribute to healthy lifestyles.
A sense of living at risk undermines the health of an individual, a
family, a neighborhood and a community. The Healthy Hall study seeks to
measure citizens’ attitudes toward risk and fear,
as
well as their levels of confidence in the institutions that protect them.
The very definition of community implies that people live together, get
along and help one another. The more a community is connected by living,
working, serving and fellowshipping together, the more healthy it will be.
The Healthy Hall assessment seeks to evaluate the extent to which Hall Countians connect to one another, as well as some of the attitudes that
keep people
apart.
An essential element of a healthy community is a confidence that, whatever
has taken place in the past, the future will be better. A hopeful attitude
is healthier than a pessimistic one. The Healthy Hall study attempts to
evaluate feelings of hope and optimism within the community. |
