Community Matters launches Your Opinion Matters! on health in Jefferson
County
Community Matters, a public health assessment, visioning and
planning process sponsored by the Jefferson County Department of Health and
supported by the local public health system, is launching its Your Opinion
Matters! Survey. This survey is an
opportunity for anyone who lives, learns, works, worships or plays in Jefferson
County to provide an assessment of issues related to health and quality of life
in Jefferson County, Alabama.
According to Mark E. Wilson, MD, Jefferson County
Health Officer, “The people of Jefferson
Countyhave a wide variety of perspectives based
on where he or she lives,
The survey is available online at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RHHF8J8 and
in Spanish at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7J86CRZ.
Paper copies can be requested by emailing communitymatters@jcdh.org and the survey can be provided verbally by calling 205-930-1478. Information
provided from this assessment will inform the 2019 Community Health Assessment
for Jefferson County, Alabama and the county’s community health improvement
plan for 2019-2024.
The most recent Community Health Assessment and the
current Community Health Improvement Plan for Jefferson County, Alabama can be
accessed here and here respectively.
Some of the accomplishments in Jefferson County include: Zyp BikeShare’s provision
of biking options in Birmingham, the Recovery Resource Center connecting
individuals affected by substance abuse to treatment resources, and the
Mother’s Milk Bank of Central Alabama providing donated breast milk to local hospital
neonatal intensive care units.
To learn more about Community Matters, please
contact:
Community
Matters
1400
6th Avenue South
Birmingham,
AL 35233
Phone:
(205)930-1578
communitymatters@jcdh.org