REPORT
San Francisco Community Health Reports and Plans
San Francisco Community Health Assessment (CHA) - 2024
The San Francisco Community Health Assessment (CHA) provides an analysis of several key health status indicators and conditions affecting the residents of San Francisco. The purpose of this report is to share a greater understanding of the state of the health landscape here in San Francisco, and to help direct the city’s collective efforts toward first understanding and then effectively addressing the root causes of health disparities across the city. The CHA is one of the requirements for Public Health Accreditation.Learn about our findings hereSan Francisco Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)
Previous San Francisco Community Health Needs Assessments:
- Community Health Needs Assessment - 2022
- Community Health Needs Assessment - 2019
- Community Health Needs Assessment - 2016
- Community Health Status Assessment - 2012
- Community Health Assessment and Profile- 2012
San Francisco Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)
The San Francisco Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) is a collaborative process of identifying health opportunities and strengths as a community and improving the health of our county. The CHIP is a three-to-five year community-driven and action-oriented plan outlining our community’s health vision, values, and priority health issues. It seeks to improve the health of the community and explains how and by whom these issues will be addressed. The broader community holds collective ownership of the CHIP as well as responsibility for realizing CHIP goals.
Why is San Francisco creating a CHIP?
SF is creating a CHIP to improve the health of its residents. The CHIP provides an opportunity for SF to create an innovative local model of community-centered health improvement that builds on our strong history of partnering with the community to identify priority health needs and improve population health.
The CHIP will also:
- Help align the city’s many health improvement efforts.
- Fulfill national public health department accreditation requirements.
- Help SF non-profit hospitals meet state and national requirements.
How will SF implement the CHIP?
SF has adapted a nationally recognized model for community-driven strategic planning (Mobilizing for Action Through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) process) for its CHIP-development framework. MAPP relies on data from a series of community health assessments to inform the final CHIP. MAPP complements SF’s strengths by building on existing efforts and strengthens community leadership, identifies a few key priorities, and emphasizes collective action and impact at both systems and community levels.
Previous San Francisco Community Health Improvement Plans:
Strategic Plan
The Strategic Plan is the next step on our journey to public health accreditation. We are working on developing the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) and the Community Health Assessment (CHA) for 2024. The CHA involves extensive community engagement with stakeholders throughout San Francisco representing diverse sectors. The CHIP is our citywide plan to protect and improve the health of all San Francisco residents, and is overseen by the San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership (SFHIP) – a citywide multidisciplinary health coalition.
This Strategic Plan outlines what contributions the health department, particularly the Population Health Division, will do to:
- Contribute to the CHIP
- Deliver the ten essential public health services, and
- Become a community-centered, high reliability, high performance learning health organization.
Strategic Map
The Strategic Map illustrates the internal strategic directions, strategies and performance measures selected to improve the infrastructure of the Division in order to build the health department of the future. It includes our mission and vision statements.
The following areas are the focus points of the strategic plan:
- Safe and Healthy Living Environments
- Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
- Access to Quality Care and Services
- Black/African American Health
- Mother, Child, & Adolescent Health
- Health for people at risk or living with HIV