How do you feel about your community's health and well-being?

The Lexington Fayette County Health Department wants to know and a survey.

People who live or work in Fayette County were asked to name the health issues that concerned them the most.

Some of the results in tonight's look at medical news.

The community health assessment is done every five years, and it's for the purpose of letting us know what the needs of the community are.

And we survey the communities and we try to incorporate quantitative and qualitative data.

And it's really to identify what are those things.

Now that we have this child, we have some data.

We know that the community wants us to work on behavioral health slash mental health.

So behavioral health really is a lot of different things.

Know, how are you doing mentally?

You know, how are you coping with with different things in your life?

Right.

Like, do you have a roof over your head?

Is that is that affordable?

What is what is your environment?

Look like?

Do you have the resources and the tools that you need to thrive?

You know, are your basic needs being met?

You know, do you are you suffering from food deserts, Your food insecurity, like all of these things that are just basic needs, really affect our behavioral health, like how we how we cope, how we strategize, how we act in the world.

The main things that the community really wants us to work on are access to care, knowledge, empowerment, mental well-being and financial stability.

So the big umbrella is still behavioral health, but with those four kind of priority areas falling underneath it, and if we don't take good care of our mental health, then we're not able to take good care of us in our families and that's what's most important for Lexington, you know, for the next antonians.

And based on, you know, what they said in terms of the survey, we want to be, you know, good stewards and we want to have good relationships and we want to do good in life, but we have to have a good balance also of mental health.

And so we have to be able to put our best foot forward.

And in order to do that, we need to take care of ourselves.