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What are the ingredients of a healthy community? Specifically, what
are the factors that can be used to measure the health of Hall County,
Georgia?*
With
its diversity of people and places, the health of a community must be
evaluated using a broad course of study, measurement and observation. This
has been the task and responsibility of the Healthy Hall Partnership—to
assess the health of Hall County as broadly and as comprehensively as
possible. Why? To better understand the health of our community and what
can be done to make it better.
Healthy
Hall first completed a community health assessment in 1998. In this 2003
assessment, Healthy Hall not only seeks to measure improvement in certain
health indicators, but also to provide new information and insight into
the overall health of our community. It is the desire of Healthy Hall’s
leadership to provide useful information that can be used by civic
organizations, community advocates, health agencies and others in order to
have a positive impact on Hall County.
In
2003, Healthy Hall joined forces with the Hall County Commission for
Children and Families to ensure its assessment would best meet the
community’s need for data and information. Working together, these two
organizations have endeavored to make this report comprehensive, useful
and meaningful. Full reports are available on disk. Call 770-533-8099 for
information.
The
Healthy Hall partnership views “health” as having more than one
dimension - instead, it has nine: social, physical, emotional, economic,
spiritual, aesthetic, occupational, educational and environmental.
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