MSU SRC Annual Community Health Survey Results
October 1, 2024
The Community Engagement Core (CEC) of the MSU Superfund Research Center is a collaboration between faculty and students at MSU and staff of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). Together, they selected three Michigan communities affected by environmental contamination. The goal of the CEC is to listen to major concerns through an annual community health survey and a local advisory group made up of people living and working in the target communities.
The CEC strives to empower residents by working together to ensure MDHHS' ongoing efforts to educate communities about the best ways to keep themselves healthy are directly responsive to the major concerns of the residents. The CEC then works to evaluate the extent to which these targeted health education efforts help to foster a trusting relationship between the MDHHS and the selected communities. Overall, the team also works with partners and investigators in the larger Superfund Research Center and across the entire program to better position them to build trust with the various individuals and groups impacted by their work.
Each spring, the CEC fields the Annual Community Health Survey. The survey—designed in collaboration with the MDHHS and the Allegan, Macomb, and Saginaw County Health Departments—collects the major concerns that people living in these communities experience regarding their collective health. The findings are then used to guide MDHHS' health education efforts which, with the help of a Local Advisory Group, are redesigned to ensure they directly address salient community vulnerabilities.
The Community Engagement Core recently shared their findings for year two of the annual survey. View the PDF links below to learn more about the year one and year two results for each community:
The CEC strives to empower residents by working together to ensure MDHHS' ongoing efforts to educate communities about the best ways to keep themselves healthy are directly responsive to the major concerns of the residents. The CEC then works to evaluate the extent to which these targeted health education efforts help to foster a trusting relationship between the MDHHS and the selected communities. Overall, the team also works with partners and investigators in the larger Superfund Research Center and across the entire program to better position them to build trust with the various individuals and groups impacted by their work.
Each spring, the CEC fields the Annual Community Health Survey. The survey—designed in collaboration with the MDHHS and the Allegan, Macomb, and Saginaw County Health Departments—collects the major concerns that people living in these communities experience regarding their collective health. The findings are then used to guide MDHHS' health education efforts which, with the help of a Local Advisory Group, are redesigned to ensure they directly address salient community vulnerabilities.
The Community Engagement Core recently shared their findings for year two of the annual survey. View the PDF links below to learn more about the year one and year two results for each community: