2019 Greater Danbury Region Community Health Needs
2019 Greater Danbury Region Community Health Needs Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan This report serves as the Community Health Needs Assessment and Improvement Plan for Greater Danbury and complements the 2019 Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index: Indicators of social progress, economic opportunity, and well-being in Fairfield County neighborhoods; a core program of DataHaven, in partnership with Fairfield County’s Community Foundation and a Community Health Needs Assessment for the towns served by all Fairfield County hospitals, including Danbury Hospital. Healthy Partnerships Collaboration Education communities 02 About this This Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) provides local report level health related data about Danbury and New Milford, and the surrounding towns of Bethel, Bridgewater, Brookfield, New Fairfield, Newtown, Redding, Ridgefield, Roxbury, Sherman, Southbury, Washington and Woodbury. (This region will be referred to as Greater Danbury throughout the remainder of this report.) This report complements the 2019 Fairfield County Community Wellbeing Index, a comprehensive report about Fairfield County and the towns within it. The Community Wellbeing Index was produced by DataHaven in partnership with Fairfield County’s Community Foundation and many other regional partners, including Danbury Hospital, now part of Nuvance Health, and local partners [listed on page 6] serving the Greater Danbury Region. Topics covered in the Index include: overall community well-being, demographic changes, housing, transportation, early childhood education, K-12 education, economic opportunity, leading public health indicators (such as premature mortality, chronic disease prevalence, health behaviors, health care access, and the social determinants of health) and civic life. This report provides additional local detail of relevance to the region, including quantitative an d qualitative data specific to the individual towns within the Greater Danbury region.
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