Transcript Foundations of Public Health PH

Foundations of Public Health
PH-200 Fall 2008
Week 6
Cardiovascular disease
Heart disease has been the leading cause of
death in the United States for the past 80
years, and is a major cause of disability.
Heart disease also results in substantial
health-care expenditures; for example,
coronary heart disease is projected to cost
an estimated $151.6 billion in direct and
indirect costs in 2007 – CDC.
Outline
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM : Questions and Review
• 9:45 AM – 11:00 AM : Public Health at the
County Level
– Orange County Health Care Agency
• 11:15 AM – 12:30PM : Presentations
(Scholarly Reviews)
Public Health at the County-Level
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Orange County Health Care Agency
http://www.ochealthinfo.com/
http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/library/heart_stroke_guide/addendum_chapter2.htm
California's Master Plan for Heart Disease and
Stroke Prevention and Treatment 2007-2015
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/cvd/Pages/California'sMasterPlanforHeartDiseaseandStrokePreventionandTreatment2007-2015.aspx
Orange County Health Care Agency
• The Health Care Agency is a regional provider, charged with
protecting and promoting individual, family and community health
through coordination of public and private sector resources.
• http://ochealthinfo.com/
• HCA's service environment is complex, with 180 different funding
sources and over 200 State and Federal mandates. The mandates
under which HCA operates require the County to provide for, or to
regulate, certain health services. Many also carry specific
requirements for staffing, operations, claiming and record-keeping.
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http://www.epi.uci.edu/media/docs/cspoc/AnnualReport/OC/orange.htm
• Many of HCA's services are preventive in nature and therefore are not
readily apparent to the public. Some examples of services include:
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food protection
hazardous waste regulation
protection from animal-related diseases
water quality monitoring and pollution prevention
mental health services
alcohol and drug abuse services
preventive health services for the aging
healthcare for incarcerated individuals
communicable disease control
child health and disability program
Immunizations
public health field nursing and public health clinics.
Mortality in Orange County
http://ochealthinfo.com/pubs/
Injury-related Mortality in Orange
County
Age distribution of Suicides in Orange
County
Estimates of Number of Babies Exposed to Dangerous Drugs in utero
Emerging Infectious Diseases
(West Nile Virus)