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URGENT HEALTH
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
to
Improve Health Outcomes for San Francisco’s
Black Community
Following a series of community health forums that examined what the government
and health institutions must do to help the people and what we, the people,
must do to help ourselves, the African American Community Health Equity Council
recommends a holistic approach to addressing health inequities in San Francisco’s
Black community by endorsing integrated public health policies that target
environmental health, mental health and physical health issues. The following
is a partial list of the Council’s recommendations:
Environmental Health
• Improve
the quantity and quality of outdoor air monitoring—both
ambient and ground level—particularly in Bayview-Hunters Point.
• Ensure that air monitoring results
are clinically analyzed and the results regularly shared with the community.
• Expand education programs in targeted
communities to increase awareness of environmental health risks and necessary
preventive actions.
Mental Health
• Establish and dedicate a facility in
the Black community that addresses symptoms and treatment of traumatic
stress syndrome among individuals and families affected by the condition.
• Develop and conduct comprehensive screenings to assess the risk
of traumatic stress syndrome and identify and treat symptoms of traumatic
stress syndrome among Black people seeking services at all city public
health clinics and hospitals.
• Track the number of people diagnosed with traumatic stress syndrome
in San Francisco.
Physical Health
• Develop an educational campaign about
metabolic syndrome, the devastating health issue that predispose one
to heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
• Establish and ensure quality medical programs and care for Black people
with metabolic syndrome by requiring a best practice standard of care
for metabolic syndrome in all hospitals, clinics and medical offices.
• Provide funding and other support to develop a community-based pilot
program to prevent metabolic syndrome, including in schools.
Click here to view the complete report, visit www.bcoa.org/aachec
or call 415.615.9945
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San Francisco Health Outcomes by Zip Code
Go to the
following link for Department of Public Health's San Francisco Burden
of Disease and Injury: Mortality Analysis, 1990-1995 on the leading
contributors to the overall burden of disease and injury in San Francisco,
based on Years of Life Lost. These data are based on all death certificates
for San Francisco residents during 2000 and 2001. For each cause of death,
Years of Life Lost were estimated based on a life expectancy table.
Thus, deaths occurring at younger ages received more weight.
http://www.healthysf.org/bdi/outcomes/index.html
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