Local Public Health Agencies represent the most powerful resource for community health improvement. Accreditation Standards are a guideline to community engagement, especially utilizing the Community Health Assessment process to engage local stakeholders. Data transparency is essential for accountability and tracking priorities and progress.
The National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) is a valuable resource for stakeholders. They maintain a directory of public health offices across the USA. However, a data set in Excel format should be made available for serious users.
The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) maintains standards for accreditation. In addition, they provide a list of agencies that have been accredited. They should provide a data set of all eligible agencies, to see who is not accredited. Summary here.
CDC also provides resources for evaluation of public health. See also, the CDC Program for Performance Evaluation of Public Health.
CDC has prepared a good resource for Standards for Public Health. See the " Ten Essential Public Health Services" . Data transparency is the common thread. Every public health agency should provide links to relevant data sets in easy-to-understand formats.
Guidelines at ASTHO provide helpful resources for Accreditation and Performance Improvement. Certainly data transparency is an essential pillar for stakeholder engagement and accountability.
CALPHO is a statewide Colorado association of local public health officials. They should provide major assistance to LPHO to access relevant data sets in easy-to-understand formats., similar to this Health Data Portal. All public health websites could include pdf extracts for their specific county. CALPHO has an ambitious and excellent description of LPHOs being "Community Health Strategists". See examples of pdf extracts for counties.
For a list of counties in Colorado, to see their Community Health Assessment plans
For Colorado Health Indicators, Behavior-Related Factors Suveillance Survey (BRFSS)