The Community Health Data Tool covers many different topics and is focused on the six Social Determinants of Health as named by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Built Environment
- Building Design: Building materials, ventilation, lighting, spaces for physical activity, accessible spaces for elderly and disabled populations, and spaces for social interaction
- Community Design: Green and open space, access to food, transportation services and infrastructure, health care access, amenities, institutions, and community connectedness
- Environmental Exposures: Water quality, air quality, noise pollution, contaminated sites
Education
- Educational Experience: A person’s access to education, the quality of education, the school environment, the availability of resources within a school, and educational attainment
- Educational Outcomes: The impact education has on a person’s future economic security, social and psychological wellbeing, and health behaviors and knowledge
Employment
- Employment Status: Whether a person is employed or not
- Workplace Risk Factors: The working conditions of employment
- Work Organization: A job’s structure or design or an employer’s organizational or management practices
- Work-Related Resources: Earnings and additional benefits provided through employment
Housing
- Affordability and Stability: Whether a person can afford and sustain payments for housing
- Quality: The physical structure and living conditions of housing
- Homelessness: The condition of not having stable housing
Social Environment
- Societal Factors: Policies and programs
- Community Factors: Social capital, social and cultural norms, social isolation, and social exclusion
- Interpersonal Factors: Interpersonal relationships
- Individual Factors: People’s existing attitudes, beliefs, and existing knowledge as related to health
Violence
- Self-Directed Violence: Suicidal behavior and self-harm
- Interpersonal Violence: Violence that occurs between individuals like intimate partner violence, elder abuse, youth violence, child abuse and neglect, and community violence
- Collective Violence: Violence resulting from social, political, and economic factors