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The Florida Department of Health works to protect, promote, and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county, and community efforts.

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Community Health Planning

Florida Department of Health in Volusia County Community Health

The mission of the Florida Department of Health is to protect, promote, and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county, and community efforts. We carry out this mission through organized, interdisciplinary efforts to address the physical, mental, and environmental health concerns of communities.

The Florida Department of Health in Volusia County (DOH-Volusia) actively engages the county's citizens and stakeholders in assessing and planning to improve the health of the community. We use the Community Health Needs Assessment and the Community Health Improvement Plan to:

  • Identify health problems and priorities and assess and monitor the health of communities and populations at risk.
  • Assure access to appropriate and cost-effective care, including health promotion and disease prevention services with an evaluation of the effectiveness of that care.
  • More about the Community Health Needs Assessment
  • More about the Community Health Improvement Plan
  • Florida’s State Health Improvement Plan
In 2022, Flagler and Volusia County completed their first cross-county collaborative community health assessment to identify health priorities. It is our pleasure to reach across organizational boundaries throughout Volusia and Flagler to include those most impacted by health challenges to create a vision that is broadly understood.

A community health improvement plan is a living document intended to be updated annually. It is a systematic effort to address public health problems in a community.

The CHIP is based on the results of a community health assessment. It is one part of a four-part plan-do-study-act process designed to improve community health. The CHIP is the community’s plan – not the county health department’s plan for the community.

Florida's State Health Improvement Plan

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