Tasks Handed to Participants

Goal 1: Get Information on Air Quality

You are a public health official working for Marin County. You current project is to do some investigations on current air quality condition in Marin County. You want to use the Healthy Communities system to find out how Marin County is doing on air quality.

1. What is the rating? Is it good, fair, or poor?
2. Is the issue getting worse in past couple years?
3. Is Marin better or worse than most other communities?

Goal 2: Share Information on Air Quality with others

Now you have found out how Marin is really doing on air quality. You want to discuss about the current situation with other people/professionals who are interested in air quality.

1. You want to email them the indicator information you have just found.
2. You also want to view others’ opinions on the issue.
3. After viewing some of the comments, you want to respond to at least one of them with your own comments.

Goal 3: Find out how Marin is doing on other community health related topics

Your project for air quality has been completed. Now you need ideas on another Marin County public health projects. Some possible areas of interest include infant mortality, childhood obesity, and employment rate. How would you find information on those three topics using the Healthy Community System? Which one(s) have a bad status?