The Consumer Health Report (CHR) is a new community health needs assessment from a first-person perspective. CHR is a valuable resource in determining the health status, health risk/chronic conditions, preventive health behaviors, physician access and consumer perceptions of healthcare in your area. By providing mapping to visualize community data down to the zip code level, the CHR provides a window to your community's health status.

The CHR enables organizations to strengthen the health of their community by assisting in the following:

• Measurement and evaluation of health status and healthcare utilization within the community.

• Identification of the prevalence of chronic conditions (26 in all) within various demographic and geographic segments within the community.

• Profiling of high-risk populations.

• Identification of gaps in care and preventive health behaviors among various demographic and geographic segments.

• National, state and county level benchmarks to provide additional perspective on your communitys health status.

• Healthy People 2010 benchmarks woven throughout the report for additional benchmarking capability.

The CHR is the culmination of over 250,000 surveys pertaining to consumer perception of healthcare. The CHR draws its research methods from the success of National Research Corporation a trusted source of consumer health intelligence for over 25 years. Information is collected, analyzed, and tailored, specific to your community's health needs, all to provide a tool to effectively maximize your resources to create the best outreach programs to those who need them the most.

The Consumer Health Report is information to help you create the most targeted and effective plan possible to address your community's health needs.