{"id":56311,"date":"2023-02-06T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/?p=56311"},"modified":"2023-02-06T13:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T18:28:36","slug":"the-necessity-of-data-in-community-health-px","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/the-necessity-of-data-in-community-health-px\/","title":{"rendered":"The Necessity of Data in Community Health PX"},"content":{"rendered":"

In many ways, community health focuses on public health as a whole. Community health workers and volunteers work to ensure that people from all socioeconomic backgrounds can still access services, doctors, and other vital resources.<\/p>\n

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A young mother who\u2019s pregnant can find help. A young man with autism can gain access to an occupational therapist to help him transition to work successfully. An elderly couple can move into an assisted living apartment complex that receives community outreach for activities and doctors for health screenings.<\/p>\n

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These are just a handful of examples of what makes community health so different from other healthcare disciplines. Here, it is community-focused<\/a> and community-driven, as compared to purely patient-focused. So how does patient experience<\/a> (PX) differ here, and why is collecting patient data so crucial for community healthcare?<\/p>\n

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Because community experiences, distilled through individual patient\/customer experience data, can help determine where resources should be allocated, whether to change programs, and how to create better community outreach and improve public opinion.<\/p>\n

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So let\u2019s look at the different aspects of patient experience data (PED)<\/a> that can be collected to help plan for a better future.<\/p>\n

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Community Health Concerns that Data Can Help With<\/h2>\n

Every organization needs to collect data<\/a> so that they can make inferences from correlations (or lack thereof). For community health services, data is particularly important, as those insights across socioeconomic or demographic groups help develop programs and plans that serve entire communities. Without these trends or exposed gaps<\/a> in resources, beleaguered community leaders will struggle to know where they should invest limited resources, or how to focus on what will impact their community most.<\/p>\n

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Often, community and public health services do not have abundant resources available to test different programs to see what works and what doesn\u2019t. In this community-based approach to healthcare, the needs of the many, by necessity, outweigh the needs of the few. The better the data, analytics, and reporting<\/a>, the more power the community programs have to meet their communal needs.<\/p>\n

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To illustrate, here are some community health goals that show the importance of data collection and analytics:<\/p>\n

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