Official Site of The State of New Jersey
Click the bars below for tools and resources for public health assessment and improvement planning.
- Annual Demographic Profile
- 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 Overburdened Communities Map
- New Jersey Fatal and Serious Injury Crash Map
- New Jersey Flood Indicator Map
- 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: 2020 and 2030
- Healthy People Evidence-Based Resources: 2020 and 2030
- Healthy People Objectives: 2020 and 2030
- Healthy People Target Setting Methods
- Health Equity
- Social Determinants of Health
- MAP-IT: A Guide to Using Healthy People 2020 in Your Community
- CDC WONDER public health data query system
- Community Health Assessment & Health Improvement Planning
- Health in All Policies
- 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)
- The Community Guide
- American Community Survey (US Census Bureau)
- Broadband Access Map (US Census Bureau) NEW
- Childhood Diversity Index Map (Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy)
- Community Health Assessment and Improvement Planning (NACCHO)
- Community Health Assessment Toolkit (American Hospital Association)
- Community Needs Index (Dignity Health)
- Community Resilience Estimates (Census Bureau)
- County Health Rankings (Population Health Institute)
- Developing a State Health Improvement Plan: Guidance and Resources (ASTHO)
- Diversity Index (Census Bureau)
- 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 (Census Bureau) NEW
- 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)
- SMARTIE Goals Worksheet (recommended by ASTHO)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Eligibility & Access (Census Bureau)