African American Business Leaders - Healthy Harford

[Pages:14]Healthy Harford: African American Health Statistics for Harford County

Presentation before African American Business Leaders as

part of UM Upper Chesapeake Presentation

Bari Klein, Executive Director, Healthy Harford

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Shared Vision for a Healthy Community

"Your Zip Code is a better predictor of your health than your genetic code."

Melody Goodman, PhD, Associate Dean of Research, and Associate Professor of Biostatistics, NYU

DATA ? Community Benefits Report ? County Health Rankings ? Behavioral Health Resources

Surveillance Survey ? Youth Risk Behavioral

Survey ? Local Health Improvement

Coalition ? Vital Statistics ? Maryland Cancer Registry ? Maryland Crime Report

Statistics ? HSCRC/CRISP emergency

room data

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All Cause Mortality in Harford County

White

Blacks

Heart disease Heart disease

Cancer

Cancer

COPD

Stroke

Stroke

Accidents

Accidents

Diabetes

Influenza

COPD*

Diabetes

Influenza

Alzheimer's Suicide

Suicide

Kidney Disease

Kidney Disease Hypertension

Sepsis

Liver Disease*

Hypertension Homicide

Liver Disease Alzheimer's

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African American men have a lower mortality rate from COPD, stroke, diabetes, and Alzheimer's when compared AA women.

African American women have a lower mortality rate from heart disease, cancer, kidney disease, and homicide when compared to AA men.

*All in same color block ranked the same

RWJF 4 Defining Markers to a Healthy Community

Children in poverty Premature death rate Low birthweight Median household income

Maryland 12% 7,100 9% $81,868

Harford 9% 6,500 7% $85,942

Black 20% 8,900 12%

White 7% 6,400 6%

Harford County poverty rates for Black and White families are starkly different: the percentage of families with a householder who is White has an estimate poverty rate of 5.1% while Black or African American householder has poverty level of 14.3%

US Census Bureau 2011-2015, American Community Survey 5 year estimates

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Sickle Cell Anemia progress

Over the last two years UM UCH has been meeting with Rudy Williams, President of the Sickle Cell Association, Harford/Cecil Counties and members of the Harford County Caucus, African-American Leaders to improve care of the sickle cell patient. We have developed sickle cell evidenced-base care protocols, primarily focusing on improving pain management. Protocol has been in place for about 1 year and Mr. Williams has reported improvements in care in our Emergency Departments. Currently we are focusing on educating our hospitalists on use of standard order set when patient is admitted. Additional quarterly meetings scheduled to continue to monitor care and further health care team education.

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