Each year, the Community Health Statistics Unit visits community leadership teams in the five Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) regions to present a variety of data, including sociodemographic, lifestyle, and health data. These presentations inform each region's community health assessment (CHA), a collaborative effort to gather information, educate, and mobilize communities, develop priorities, secure resources, and plan actions to enhance regional health.

In addition to using data from the U.S. Census’s American Community Survey, the presentations include a variety of estimates from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), including adult food insecurity (2019–2023), mental health (2022–2023), neighborhood safety among teens (2021–2023), food stamp use (2019–2023), and health status and usual source of care (2019–2023).

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