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What is the Community Health Hub?
The Community Health Hub (CHH) is an online resource for discovering health metrics and community priorities in the New Hampshire and Vermont region. The Health Hub serves to communicate to the community in lay language about the value of community-engaged research. In addition, it helps researchers to tell the story of their research and invite the community to report on their experience. The site will evolve and expand to serve the changing needs of our communities and researchers. We welcome your feedback, questions or suggestions at any time by contacting us.
Discover
community needs and priorities for improving health in the Library and Health Dashboards.
Connect
with others working on research and other projects to improve health through Project Profiles and Community Tools & Resources, or Contact Us.
Collaborate
with the Upper Valley Public Health Council, Greater Sullivan County Public Health Advisory Council, and others to examine and improve regional health indicators in the Health Dashboards.
Health Dashboards
Dartmouth-Hitchcock works with many community organizations to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve, addressing priorities identified in regional Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) and other regionally identified needs. Every three years Dartmouth-Hitchcock identifies what we intend to do to address these needs in our Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). The dashboards below include health, public health, and program measures Dartmouth-Hitchcock and other organizations such as the Public Health Council of the Upper Valley and the Greater Sullivan County Public Health Region use to evaluate our work to implement this Community Health Improvement Plan.
Contact us with questions about the Dartmouth-Hitchcock CHIP dashboards or if your organization would be interested in participating in this regional community health dashboard initiative.
Project Profiles
Project Profile: Teen Speak-Out - PROJECT: Engaging rural teenagers to develop community-driven interventions to address stress. METHODS: • Convened five community Teen Speak-Out dinners with prompting questions, discussions, and brainstorming to identify perceptions of approaches to address stress • Recruited 35 teens (including two youth leaders) aged 13-19 from the Woodsville (NH), Blue Mountain Union (VT), and Oxbow (VT) school… Continue Reading
Project Profile: Evaluation of Fit Squad® - A Fit Squad® participant exercising with their mentor. Image from the "We Are Community Partners!" video PROJECT: Adapting a fitness promotion program (InSHAPE™) for people with severe mental illness—for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), called the Fit Squad® program. VIDEO : We Are Community Partners! This video shows the Fit Squad® program in action,… Continue Reading
Project Profile: Patient Decision Aid for Depression - PROJECT: Guide the development of an encounter-based decision aid for depression that can be seamlessly embedded into primary care clinics. The tool will facilitate routine depression screening while linking real-time decision support to patients who screen positive for depression. METHODS: Four focus groups (6-12 people each) including individuals with depression, members of the general public,… Continue Reading