About Us
Welcome to Health For All Washtenaw! This website is supported by the Washtenaw County Health Department and partners. Health for All Washtenaw is meant to be a central location for information about health and factors that impact health in our community. Health For All Washtenaw provides:
- Local data on a broad range of topics affecting health in our community
- Promising practices from other local, state and national health departments
- News articles highlighting the assets in our community
Community groups, schools, health care providers, students, researchers, advocates, public servants, and many other community members and organizations use this website to research local health data.
Data on this site is used to inform many different types of projects and initiatives! Here are just a few examples:
- High school and college students looking for local information to include in a paper or project
- Community groups researching local data to use in grant proposals
- Local advocates and activists using the latest stats on community health to inform their work
- Academic research teams gathering data
- Governments and policy makers looking for background information to inform local policy and community services
The data on this site is updated whenever source data is updated, providing the most up-to-date information. Looking for help using the Health for All site? Check out this page.
As a local health department, there are limitations on the data that we have access to and the capacity we have to gather new data. Unfortunately, we typically are not able to accommodate requests for providing data outside of what is here on the Health for All website.
We aren't the owners of the data that is shared on this site. Depending on the data source, we are not always able to provide data at zip code or census tract level. We strive to provide this information whenever we can, but sometimes there is simply not a large enough sample size for a particular indicator to be able to do this. Additionally, other demographic information (like race/ethnicity, gender, etc.) might not be available within a given data set.
The data on this site shows the most recently updated data available. "Recent" data is often around 2-4 years old. This is because of the time it takes to validate and clean data. Data validation means checking the accuracy and quality of data before using it. Data cleaning means addressing and correcting incorrect, duplicate, or incomplete data within a data set. It takes time for data to be available that can show us reliable, valid trends.
Have a question about data? Contact us here.
Community Health Improvement
The Washtenaw County Health Department's new community health improvement process is built on a national model for improving public health called MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships). The Health Department chose to use MAPP because it emphasizes community engagement and health equity in all phases of the work so that action is focused on addressing unfair and unjust differences in health.
From 2019 to 2021, the MAPP process was guided by the Health for All Steering Committee. Now that the committee's two year time commitment has been completed, the Board of Health and Community Voices team are partnering on this work with the Health Department.
The Health for All Washtenaw website is home to the data, stories, and actions of the Health Department's health improvement process, as well as additional data and information from partners in the community. We hope you find this site useful as we work together to improve health for all Washtenaw community members.
Interested in learning more about the Health Department's community health assessment and improvement work? Check out these videos! (en Espanol)