Medical School Hotline: An Online, Quantitative Community Health Needs Assessment of Hale‘iwa and Waialua, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i

摘要

The University of Hawai‘i John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) seeks to promote “health status and health education in the communities we serve.”1 The DFMCH was founded in 1992, and in 1994 the department began a family medicine residency program at Wahiawā General Hospital.1 The residency program includes a clinic in Mililani that provides outpatient primary care services to surrounding underserved communities.2 To support DFMCH’s mission, a community health needs assessment (CHNA) was conducted online, leveraging social networking, in the communities of Hale‘iwa and Waialua towns. These areas, which fall within the DFMCH residency clinic service area, lack specific health data and do not contain federally qualified health centers (FQHC).