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Core
Indicators Report Overview This report is the first Healthy Communities Initiative of St. Joseph County indicators report on the general well-being of residents in St. Joseph County, Indiana. It represents a modest beginning to the examination of the quality of life of residents in this area, and serves as base line information for future change. To view a complete The indicators included in this report constitute the "core set" of indicators used in the Accelerating Community Transformation (ACT) project called the "Outcomes Toolkit." The Toolkit is a performance-based planning tool that contains an array of indicators, strategies, and procedures to facilitate the active and systematic engagement of communities in defining and dealing with health and community improvement issues. The core set of indicators in the toolkit is a basic set of items of information, chosen by consensus from ACT communities throughout the United States, that describe observable, measurable characteristics of people, organizations, or communities. It represents, if you will, a minimum data set that most communities can collect that are based on reliable, valid, timely, cost-effective data. Some of the indicators might suggest that the community is doing well in light of what is measured; community leaders might want to celebrate and then choose to place program resources elsewhere and track indicators relevant to the other issues. On the other hand, some measures may indicate a problem for which additional analysis and community effort are needed. Whatever their use, these indicators and any related outcome measures provide a structure for monitoring the progress of initiatives in achieving desired results. These core indicators fall into four broad areas: Table 1 lists each of the 10 indicators chosen, its relevant area and focus. In each area, the focus and subsequent indicators will vary. For each indicator, there may be more than one measure listed. These measures were those recommended in the ACT/Outcomes Toolkit; however, not all measures were analyzed due to lack of relevant data.
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These core indicators fall into four broad areas: John
R. Hagen, Ph.D.
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