The one advantage of conducting community health survey is how effectively it can be used in examining the community demographic, collection of socioeconomic data, and the health-related factors concerning community members’ behaviors. An example of how advantageous community public health survey can be used, is the study of how smoking during pregnancy may cause many health problems for pregnant women and their newborns. This study used data from the 2009–2010 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) to guesstimate the occurrence of smoking in the course of prenatal period and inspected the demographic, socioeconomic, public health-related data, and behavioral elements of such behavior (Cui, Shooshtari, Forget, Clara & Cheung, 2014). The study was commendably done in finding the number of demographics, and community behavioral characteristics that should be measured, in developing community health promotional strategies to prevent smoking during pregnancy (Cui et al, 2014).
One challenge of conducting community public health surveys is the time-sensitivity of data gathering. Most types of health surveys could be time-consuming in nature. In other words, the process of collecting survey data analysis is time-consuming for health assessors. And the survey data that are produced are more likely to lack enough specifics, and in-depth information on the community health problem being examined (Kelly, Clark, Brown & Sitzia, 2003).
