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Presentation by Susan Stuart from Santa Clara County Public Health Department at "Wildlands, Food and Your Health." Event hosted by Greenbelt Alliance on June 16, 2012.
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Creating Healthy Communities
Gilroy, June 16, 2012
Susan Stuart
Santa Clara County Public Health Department
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Why Public Health?
Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time. - C. Everett Koop
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Leading Causes of Mortality in SCC
50 % of all deaths
Source: California Department of Public Health, Death Records, 2008
Top 2 causes
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What Makes a Community Healthy?
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Conditions of Health• Clean air, soil and water • Access to affordable, nutritious food• Quality education, childcare, libraries, park facilities• Affordable, quality housing• Green and open spaces, including agricultural land• Walkable/bikeable neighborhoods connecting to transit and
necessary services• Healthy job opportunities• Safe and socially cohesive communities• Affordable, accessible health care
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Poverty and Education
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Community / Neighborhood: What Improves Wellness?
Nearly ½ surveyed think access to physical activity and healthy food will have most impact
Source: SCC BRFSS 2009
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Overweight/Obesity, SCC
Source: Santa Clara County Public Health Department, 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Survey2007-08 California Healthy Kids Survey
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Overweight and Obese Adults, Santa Clara County
Source: Santa Clara Public Health Department 2004, 2005-06, 2009, Behavioral Risk Factor Survey
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Overweight or Obese Adults: Gilroy, SCC, CA, and US
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SCC Childhood Obesity/OverweightSCC City 2010 Overweight +
ObesityGilroy 43.6%Santa Clara 37.5%San Jose 36.0%Milpitas 33.3%Sunnyvale 31.0%Morgan Hill 30.3%Campbell 30.1%Cupertino 18.4%Palo Alto 18.4%Saratoga 18.2%Los Gatos 15.4%Santa Clara County 32.9%California 38.0%
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and California Center for Public Health Advocacy, 2012
14% of Gilroy adults ever told they had diabetes (SCC: 8%) Source: BRFSS, 2009
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Asthma Among SCC Adults
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Frequency of Fast Food Consumption
1-3 times/week 4 or more times/week
Source: SCC BRFS 2009, CHIS 2007.
37% of Gilroy adults ate fast food at least once a week. Source: BRFSS, 2009
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Healthy Food Resources
Public Health Law & Policy, Healthy Food Resource Assessment, 2010
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Physical Activity: Children Engaging in Vigorous Activity by Race / Ethnicity
Source: HP 2010 ( 9-12th grade), SCC CHKS 2005-06 (7th, 9th, 11th graders), California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) 2007
48% of Gilroy adults reported performing any vigorous physical activity (SCC: 54%)Source: BRFSS, 2009
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Middle and High School Indicators
Gilroy Unified Morgan Hill Unified SCC Daily Physical Activity 49% 58% 56%Ate 5+ fruits & vegetables yesterday 33% 35% 36%Drank 1+ sodas in past 24 hrs. 58% 54% 55%
Source: California Healthy Kids Survey 2007-08
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General Plan Health Element• First chapter to be updated• Quality of life survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SantaClaraCounty
• General plan health element outreach
• Latino health assessment
• Will be one of a few California Counties to have a public health element
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Contact Information
Santa Clara County Health Elementwww.healthysantaclaracounty.org/
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Thank you!
It is unreasonable to expect that people will change their behavior easily when so many
forces in the social, cultural and physical environment conspire against such change.
Institute of Medicine
