Building a Shared Understanding of the Public Health Landscape in California
The State Health Assessment (SHA) provides a snapshot of health for the entire population, across a range of conditions and factors. Let’s Get Healthy California – the SHA – leverages a broad range of information to identify key health issues and contributing factors, elevate trends and disparities, and identify assets and resources that can be mobilized to address these issues. The SHA provides a strong foundation to inform program and policy planning and development.
Iterative Statewide Collaborative Process
This comprehensive process incorporates a wide-range of inputs – both qualitative and quantitative – to provide a deeper understanding of the health of California and identify and prioritize opportunities for population health improvement. The state health improvement plan (SHIP) is then updated to build upon those opportunities by establishing shared priorities and identifying strategies designed to achieve measurable improvements on prioritized health issues.
Assessment Highlights
Core Module
The State Health Assessment Core Module is an annual analysis that provides a snapshot of the health status of California based on a standard set of measures.
State of Public Health
The State of Public Health includes an annual testimony and biennial report, provided to the California State Legislature, to elevate public health issues and inform policy.
API Data Brief
The Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Data Brief includes a collection of fact sheets that highlight various health indicators disaggregated by Asian and Pacific Islander groups.