Community Health Profile

The first Valley Health Profile was produced in 1998 at approximately the time the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center was founded. It was created to assess the health and well-being of Naugatuck Valley residents. The purpose was to create a report whereby comparisons could be made between the health of the populations of the Valley and the state of Connecticut and to present Valley agencies with a useful, comprehensive document to inform program and policy decision-making. A second edition, including identified trends from previous and updated data, was produced in 2000. A third edition, renamed the “Community Health Profile (CHP)”, was published in 2004 and included health information for not only the Valley and the state of Connecticut, but also for three of Connecticut’s largest cities, Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven. The current edition includes data from a longer period of time, spanning 1995 to 2005, which help identify meaningful trends and continue surveillance of trends in health and disease in the aforementioned communities. The ultimate goal of the Profile is to develop an efficient and meaningful way of tracking various causes of morbidity and mortality in the people of the Valley, Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven and Connecticut as a whole.

Included in this report are the methods and sources that were used to collect the data, summaries of results for each health risk, and a discussion of limitations in the data, analyses, and interpretation of results. In addition, a number of recommendations have been made to relevant stakeholders, including community health agencies, local hospitals, and the departments of public health. The goal is to increase the collection of comprehensive data to be included in subsequent editions of the Community Health Profile, as well as to explore ways for a meaningful integration of the data in the report with other currently existing, or developing, databases for optimal data sharing at the community level throughout the state.

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