Community Assessment of Kent County Health Needs:

Kent County is an area within Michigan State in the United States of America and part of the Grand Rapids -- Wyoming Metropolitan Statistical Area. In order to identify the County's most pressing priority health needs, this paper focuses on providing a community assessment on the unmet community health needs.

Community Vitality:

The assessment of community health and ensuring the availability of certain services for the residents of this area is a responsibility of the Kent County Health Department, which also ensures the provision of some core programs and planning and executing public education to enforce public health laws ("Health Department," n.d.).

The department also operates five public health clinics in the entire county to provide immunizations and the Women, Infants, and Children program.

It also examines causes of disease, morbidity and mortality, epidemics, and environmental health hazards.

Indicators of Social and Economic...
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