First Nation’s Health Development: Tools for Assessment of Health and Social Service Program Impacts on Community Wellness and Capacity

Co-Principal Investigators:  Bonnie Jeffery, Sylvia Abonyi

This project developed indicators and a framework for use by First Nations and northern health organizations to track the effects of health and human service programs under their jurisdiction on indicators of community health.  In community interviews and focus groups, people talked about the ways they could tell whether their community was healthy.  From these stories, as well as from existing documents, an understanding of what it means to have a healthy community was created.  With this information, the project produced:

1. A set of logic models describing the health and other social programs delivered in the research communities.

2.  The Community Health Indicators Toolkit contains 165 potential indicators that were identified as important by community members and health providers.  The indicators were placed within a framework made up of larger areas (domains) and indicator categories, as shown in the framework diagram. 

Project Links

Community Health Indicators Toolkit

This link will take you to the comprehensive website for the Toolkit project.

First Nations Health Development Project:  Tools for Program Planning and Evaluation

Alberta Centre for Activing Living Research Update article - 2008

Development of a Framework and Measures of Community Health for Aboriginal Health Organizations in Northern Saskatchewan

Research Poster - March 2008

Community Health Indicators for use by First Nations Health Organizations: Development of Measures

Research Poster - October 2005

Development of an Evaluative Framework for use by First Nations Health Organizations

Research Poster - September 2005

Developing Evaluation Tools for use by First Nations Health Organizations

Research Poster - May 2004

Evaluation Methods in Population Health Research: Measuring and Building Capacity

Research Poster - May 2004

Development of Measures of Community Health and Capacity for use by First Nations Health Organizations

Research Poster - June 2003