What is the 4-Step Action Model?
What is the Community Health Monitoring Action Model?
Using the community identified public health concerns and the corresponding measures, ATSDR develops what they refer to as an “Action Model”. The ATSDR Action Model is a 4-step process to assess local health issues and addresses the ways they can be measured and eventually improved. The 4 steps are:
- What are the issues in the community?
- How can redevelopment address these issues?
- What are the corresponding community health benefits?
- What data are needed to measure change?

