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Healthy New Jersey
Tools & Resources
Click the bars below for tools and resources for public health assessment and improvement planning.
- Community Conversations: Pandemic Perspectives, NJ’s COVID-19 Storytelling Project
- Healthy Community Planning Municipal Reports
- Interactive NJ Cancer Data
- Local-level public health data
- Municipal Revitalization Index (municipal distress ranking)
- New Jersey Community Asset Map
- New Jersey Environmental Justice Mapping, Assessment, and Protection Tool (EJMAP)
- New Jersey Fatal and Serious Injury Crash Map
- New Jersey Flood Indicator Map
- New Jersey Hunger, Food Security, and Maternal Health Dashboard and Map
- New Jersey Overdose Mortality Data Explorer (SUDORS)
- New Jersey State Health Assessment Data (NJSHAD)
- NJDOH offices that produce data
- Population Estimates
- Potential Lead Exposure (Housing Age) Map
- Small Area Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Estimates
- United for ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed)
- Healthy People 2030
- Evidence-Based Resources
- Objectives
- Priority Areas: Equity, Literacy, Social Determinants of Health
- Target Setting Methods
- Past iterations of Healthy People
- CDC WONDER public health data query system
- Community Health Assessment & Health Improvement Planning
- Interactive Map: Life Expectancy at Birth for U.S. States and Census Tracts
- National Center for Health Statistics
- PLACES: Local Data for Better Health
- SMART Objectives
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Stats of the States
- Ten Essential Public Health Services (Revised, 2020)
- American Community Survey (US Census Bureau)
- Broadband Access Map (US Census Bureau)
- Childhood Diversity Index Map (Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy)
- Community Guide, The (Community Preventive Services Task Force)
- Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning (NACCHO)
- Community Health Assessment Toolkit (American Hospital Association)
- Community Resilience Estimates (US Census Bureau)
- County Health Rankings (Population Health Institute)
- Developing a State Health Improvement Plan: Guidance and Resources (ASTHO)
- Diversity Index (US Census Bureau)
- Engaging Partners in a Virtual Space Toolkit (ASTHO)
- Health Professional Shortage Areas (HRSA)
- Healthy People 2030 Products and Resources (ASTHO)
- Healthy People 2030 in Community Health Improvement Toolkit (NACCHO)
- Innovation Skills (The Gov Lab)
- Map of Racial/Ethnic Diversity, Age, and Sex by State, County, and Census Tract from the 2020 Census (US Census Bureau)
- Map the Meal Gap (Feeding America)
- Neighborhood Atlas (University of Wisconsin)
- Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) Standards and Measures: Guidelines for Community Health Assessments and Improvement Plans
- Standard 1.1: Participate in or lead a collaborative process resulting in a comprehensive community health assessment. (PDF pages 23-32)
- Standard 5.2: Develop and implement community health improvement strategies collaboratively. (PDF pages 160-172)
- Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (US Census Bureau)
- Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (US Census Bureau)
- SMARTIE Goals Worksheet (recommended by ASTHO)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Eligibility & Access (US Census Bureau)