Thursday, June 6, 2013

2012 Herkimer County Risk Assessment Profile Now Available!


The 2012 Herkimer County Risk Assessment Profile was recently released and is now available for viewing online. The Profile was created by Herkimer County Integrated County Planning and Herkimer County Health Net, Inc., in collaboration with the members of the Comprehensive Assessment Task Force. The data collected within the Profile gives a snapshot of the level of risk that exists in Herkimer County and the areas in which there is a need to work collaboratively to improve outcomes. It is an update to the previous Risk Assessment Profiles published in 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009.

The 2012 Profile is organized utilizing the six Life Areas of the New York State Touchstones  model: Community, Citizenship, Physical and Emotional Health, Family, Economic Security, and  Education, and incorporates the New York State Department of Health’s Prevention Agenda’s  Priority Health Areas into the Physical and Emotional Health section of the document.The document is chalk full of all sorts of local data (two examples can be found below) and is well worth downloading if you are involved in any sort of planning in Herkimer County !

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