Pima County Health Department Website Analysis

The priority health needs are obesity, stroke, pulmonary disease/smoking, and access to care with 40% of the population residing in rural areas of the county. Also, important to note, is that 25% of the residents are greater than 65 years of age with an incline in elderly residents noted during the 2016 assessment.

The CDC website provides ample educational information regarding tuberculosis. It gives a detail description of what Tuberculosis is, the testing used and how it works. The website also addresses the risk factors of tuberculosis and warns that traveling to countries such as Africa, Asia and Central America puts them in a higher risk of contracting TB. In addition, it provides people with preventive measures to avoid being infected. They advise against close proximity with infected, and to be cautious around people working in health care facilities, prisons, shelter or an over populate area and advise to refrain from consuming unpasteurized milk products. In addition, the Website provides Data and Statistics, which can help support previous

Arroyo Fresco Community Health Center (AF) is a community health center serving western Arizona from 11 clinics and 4 mobile service vans. Community health centers have been established over the past 40 years in underserved areas in all 50 states, and they are nonprofit, community-owned health care organizations that offer patients high-quality primary care and preventive services regardless of their ability to pay. They also provide enabling services, such as transportation, translation, case management, health education, and home visitation, which increase access to care. AF serves three counties – Yuma, Mohave, and La Paz – with diverse populations and needs. The service area of over 23,000 square miles has fewer than

There are many governmental agencies within the healthcare system. One of most interesting and heart-wrenching agencies is a local governmental agency called Terrell State Mental Hospital. This agency is well known in the state of Texas for its carefree healthcare. They have a longstanding relationship with the families of its patients and are a major contributor to the city of Terrell’s financial windfall. They produce over ten million a year for the city of Terrell, which allows this city to take care of its mental inpatients and make sure they have the best treatment possible.

Kootenai County has a health department that is involved in health services and provides pertinent information to

The services includes; health screening, education and prevention programs for diabetes, obesity and HIV, screening and access to child immunization and shots for adult clients. This service is extremely important because so many people are lacking health care, especially if they come from a small reservation they might lack the capacity to for example find a disease like cancer, in one of their patients. They provide access to primary care by making contracts with different community clinics and medical providers for medical, dental and specialty care. They also provide culturally sensitive services because there are sometimes cultural issues between the doctor, and the patient due to different belief systems. The clinic provides services like physicals, management of medicine, STD/STI screening, pap smears, pregnancy testing breast exams, and contraceptives. It is important to note, that the also have health services for seniors/elders, nutrition and weight loss. The only requirement is the patient has to be a member of a federally recognized tribe or one that is state recognized to receive health education/service programs. The primary care clinic varies from clinic to clinic and should be consulted before

Special needs clients can also go down to the local Department of Human Services offices and request assistance with whatever they may need, and if they do not have an advocate one will be found for them so that they are able to get the help they need. Many medical offices also have information about resources available to the public who need assistance due to a disability. Mississippi offers medical transportation, as do all states and if the client is residing in a foster or group home the agency running the live in care facility will have all the resources the individual needs.

In my neighborhood which is the Griffin Heights community the closet medical clinic is the Florida Department of Health. This health department is on Old Bainbridge near the Griffin Heights Middle School. There is also another clinic that provides medical services in the surrounding area; Patient First. The Florida Department of Health in Leon county provides many health and wellness related services such as dental care, vision care, physical exams and others. I stay near the Griffin Heights area and the closest emergency room is Tallahassee Memorial Hospital (TMH) which is ten minutes away. Veterinarian services are important and often get over looked in impoverish communities like Griffin Heights. Griffins Heights does not have a veterinarian

A basic overall assessment of Pasco county health concludes that the county is a moderately healthy community with chronic illness being a major issue. When comparing Pasco County In the area of Health outcome to the 67 other counties in Florida Pasco places 45th. The higher the score the worse the county is. (County Health, 2013) There are two categories that the rankings were broken into were health outcomes and health factors. Health outcome refers to mortality and morbidity. Health factors pertain to health risks including factors like alcohol use, access to care and education. With Health factors Pasco ranked 28th. The rankings vary by a large margin and lead to the conclusion that the county has relatively healthy.

Office of Disability Support Services located at 325 Academy St, Suite 161, Perkins Student Center, email:

The data has shown that there is an ongoing problem with obesity in DeSoto County and many counties in Florida. The State of Obesity, reports that Florida 's adult obesity rate is 26.4 percent, up from 20.7 percent in 2004 and from 11.4 percent in 1990("Florida", 2014). In 2011 for DeSoto County, the percentage of obese females was in the worst 25% of all counties at 44%, while the percentage of obese males was in the middle 50% of all counties at 38.2%. The national average in 2011 was 36.1% for females and 33.8% for males. Excess weight is considered to be one of the major causes and determinates of future health problems. These problems include diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease among others. These issues cut across race, gender and age. If you are a black person aged 45-64 you are more likely to either have one of the diseases attributed to obesity or have the highest risk of developing one of these diseases. There is some good news among the data when it comes to children, the CDC reports that between 2008 and 2011 Florida 's rate fell from 14.1% to 13.1%, a statistically significant decrease according to the CDC analysis. The goal is to continue in this same direction by focusing on the education and intervention of children so they do not become a member of this statistical population and eventually fall into

Itasca County Public Health works with local, regional and state partners to protect health, to guide public health practice, to plan for emergency response and to align resources for planning (Itasca County Health and Human Services, 2016).

On September 23, 2016 Claudia Mercado-Smith who is a volunteer manager at the Children’s Rehabilitation Institute (Teleton USA) provided me with a tour. It is located on 10839, Quarry Park, San Antonio, TX 78233 right by the Toyota field. Their telephone number is (210) 257-6260. The population served here in Bexar County is 79% of patients are Texas residents, half of the patients live in San Antonio alone, and 21% are from 28 or more different states. They serve children from birth to the age of 18 years

MHC Healthcare (MHC) is a community health center located in Marana, Arizona. MHC Healthcare originally opened in 1957 as Marana Health Center. MCH started out in a small building and continued to thrive over the years. Through the years, MHC expanded to 13 sites all across Pima County, Arizona. In 2011, MHC opened Marana Main Health Center, a new 74,000 square foot community health center (CHC) in Marana. Marana Health Main Center is a full service facility including Quick Care, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Integrated Healthcare Center (IHCC), Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Dental Services. The Center also provides Pharmacy, Laboratory and Radiology services, along with Women’s Infants and Children (WIC) services.

For instance, there were many dentist offices, three urgent care centers, a cardiovascular care clinic, phlebotomy care training center, eye care centers, obstetrics and gynecology office, and a mental health clinic. Besides health service centers, there were also alternative medicine centers such as acupuncture, massage clinic, and chiropractic specialist as well. There are also some social service centers such as the secretary of the state, social security administration office, and WIC program and clinic information center. Part of this city are several child care facilities and senior centers.