Community Needs Assesments
The 2025 Greater Manchester Community Health Needs Assessment
The City of Manchester Health Department Releases a Portfolio of Updated Community Health Needs Assessments and Plans for 2025.
The City of Manchester Health Department (MHD), with the input of a multitude of community partners and hundreds of resident voices, proudly releases a portfolio of ten community needs assessments and community health improvement plans for Manchester action. These are in addition to the previously released publications designed to address two of the priority areas identified in the 2022 Greater Manchester Community Health Needs Assessment: 2024 City of Manchester Overdose Prevention Strategy and the 2023 City of Manchester, NH Healthy Food Access Plan.
As the Institute of Medicine cites, measurably improving the health of communities is a shared responsibility for its protection and improvement, involving a wide range of individuals, organizations and agencies. As chief health strategist, the MHD works with all sectors of the community to monitor, anticipate, and address emerging health threats by producing community health needs assessments and community health improvement plans every three years. This portfolio is a summation of the current body of work designed to inspire and advance evidence-based practices throughout City neighborhoods and priority populations that will optimize prevention, cost-savings and quality of life for all.
The 2022 Greater Manchester Community Health Needs Assessment
This year’s Greater Manchester Community Heath Needs Assessment was developed through a partnership with the Manchester Health Department and Catholic Medical Center, Elliot Health System, and Dartmouth Health. This document serves as a public data source to help inform community-level decision making and guide healthcare entities.
The priorities highlighted in the 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment include:
Improve educational outcomes, reduce and prevent substance misuse, improve access to quality preventive healthcare, improve access to healthy foods, improve access to healthy and affordable housing, and prevent and address trauma.
This report also includes local input on these priorities from residents as well as key stakeholders in the community that were obtained via surveys and interviews.
The COVID-19 pandemic greatly impacted data collection and outcomes in the Greater Manchester community and throughout the report the effect of the pandemic is observed and disclosed.
Acccess the 2022 Greater Manchester Community Health Needs Assessment
Greater Manchester Community Health Needs Assessment: Assessing Manchester's Urban Advantage
This document provides an overview of the current state of health and health-related factors among Manchester residents. This comprehensive report was developed in partnership with Catholic Medical Center and the Elliot Health System to serve as a tool that guides community level action to ensure optimal health for all Manchester residents.
The assessment identified the following community priorities for action:
- Improve educational outcomes by addressing root factors, such as chronic absenteeism, literacy, and on-time graduation rates;
- Address and prevent substance misuse, including excessive drinking and teen vaping;
- Improve access to care by increasing prevention, such as universal home visiting for pregnant women and systems changes to prevent suicide;
- Increase access to quality, affordable housing to prevent homelessness and exposure to indoor health hazards such as lead; and
- Address and prevent trauma among residents from child abuse and neglect, extreme poverty, and/or mental health distress.
For more information, please reference the following:
Executive Summary:
Greater Manchester Community Health Needs Assessment: Executive Summary
Full Report:
Greater Manchester Community Health Needs Assessment: Assessing Manchester’s Urban Advantage – June 2019
Appendix:
Greater Manchester Community Health Needs Assessment: Appendix