North Coast Community Assessment

North Coast Breast Health Community Assessment: Needs, Assets & Opportunities

Objectives•Learn about a new community tool •How it can help your community •Identify ways to strengthen access to breast health resources

Why do a Breast Health Assessment?

•Better understand the breast

cancer health disparities in rural

Oregon communities

•Create a new community tool

•Build a bridge between research

and community

Methodology•Information was collected for each county from multiple sources including:

•County Snap Shots

•Key Informant Interviews

•Breast Health Network

How this tool can help your community

•Better understand breast cancer health

disparities & why they exist

•Collected new information

•Distance to MMG maps

Distance to Mammography Map

61 to 180 minutes31 to 60 minutes0 to 30 minutes

Legend:

Community Need Index (CNI) maps

http://www.chwhealth.org/Who_We_Are/Community_Health/STGSS044508

Next Steps•Spread the word about the Needs Assessment as a new tool!!!•Create resource inventory to strengthen Breast Health Network•BHTF Resource sub Committee •Development of innovative health education tools

For More Information

Dolly England Community Health EducatorOHSU Knight Cancer Institute

3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, CR145Portland, OR 97239

direct 503.494.3389 | cell 971-340-9247 | fax 503.494.7086 | englandd@ohsu.edu