HEALTHY BALTIMORE 2015 - Baltimore City Health Department

HEALTHY BALTIMORE 2015

INTERIM STATUS REPORT

May 2016

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor

Leana Wen, M.D., M.Sc., Commissioner of Health

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Baltimore City Health Department would like to thank its staff members for their contributions to this report and to the projects and interventions that are described herein. We also thank the following agencies, whose contributions appear throughout the report for their partnership and collaboration: The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (The Vital Statistics Administration, Health Services Cost Review Commission, Center for HIV Surveillance, Virtual Data Unit, Epidemiology and Evaluation), Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Information Technology, Baltimore City Liquor Board, the Maryland State Department of Education and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Office of Public Health Practice and Training, Department of Epidemiology, Center for a Livable Future). Thank you also Jack Out of the Box Designs for the graphic design of this report.

Contributors: Contributors (in alphabetical order by last name): Christian Fuller Jana Goins, MHS Jonathan Gross, MPH Luc Miller Ravikiran Muvva, MBBS, MPH, MPA Darcy Phelan-Emrick, DrPH, MHS Elizabeth Toure

Suggested citation: Baltimore City Health Department. Healthy Baltimore 2015 Interim Status Report, May 2016.

This report can be accessed electronically at .

Contact information: For additional information or questions about this report, please contact the Office of Epidemiology Services at the Baltimore City Health Department at 410-361-9580 or health_research@.

HEALTHY BALTIMORE 2015: INTERIM STATUS REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LETTER FROM THE MAYOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

LETTER FROM THE HEALTH COMMISSIONER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING DATA ON RACE AND HOSPITAL VISITS IN THIS REPORT . . . . 4

PRIORITY AREAS

1.Promote Access to Quality Health Care for All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. Be Tobacco Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3. Redesign Communities to Prevent Obesity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4. Promote Heart Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5. Stop the Spread of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 6. Recognize and Treat Mental Health Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 7. Reduce Drug Use and Alcohol Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 8. Encourage Early Detection of Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 9. Promote Healthy Children and Adolescents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 10. Create Health Promoting Neighborhoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

TECHNICAL NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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