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Introduction In an effort to educate the community in various health related issues, the Public Health Department of the Santa Cruz County’s Health Services Agency, utilizing and adapting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthy People 2010 format, has undertaken to compile an almanac of information dealing with many aspects of health. Health is defined in this work in the broadest sense of the word and encompasses and endorses the concept of well-being in addition to the lack of illness and disease. Health is seen as the prevention and/or elimination of problems and the preservation of individuals and groups so that they may live and enjoy to the fullest extent of being. Many sources of information have been explored, adapted and borrowed from to produce this work but without the efforts of the Public Health Professionals who work every day to preserve the Public’s health, disease would overcome the community and its people. Much of the information included in this almanac reflects the ongoing efforts of these local individuals and are only a small measure of their continued efforts and accomplishments. Privacy Notice The County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency values your right to privacy and confidentiality regarding health related matters and issues. We strongly believe and understand that health is a very personal, private subject. We want you to feel as comfortable as possible while visiting our web-site and wish to reassure you that we will make every reasonable effort to protect your privacy and confidentiality regarding health or medical matters. As a County health care provider, all information collected by the County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency as part of the official medical record of any client or recipient of medical services is legally protected, confidential and private. The County of Santa Cruz complies with State and Federal regulations regarding the confidentiality and release of patient or client medical record information. If you are receiving direct health care services from the County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency, you may want to review our Patient/Client Notice of Privacy Practices available from your County physician or health care provider and also available on this web site. See: http://www.santacruzhealth.org/1disclaim.htm The County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency does not as a practice routinely collect any personally identifiable information on this web-site except when explicitly and voluntarily submitted by you through E-mail, responses to surveys, questionnaires and the like. About Healthy People 2010 Healthy People 2010 builds on similar initiatives pursued over the past two decades. Two overarching goals - increase quality and years of healthy life, and eliminate health disparities - served as a guide for developing objectives that will actually measure progress. Nationally the objectives are organized in 28 focus areas, each representing an important public health area. Each objective has a target for improvements to be achieved by the year 2010. A limited set of the objectives, known as the Leading Health Indicators, are intended to help everyone more easily understand the importance of health promotion and disease prevention and to encourage wide participation in improving health in the next decade. These Indicators were chosen based on their ability to motivate action, the availability of data to measure their progress, and their relevance as broad public health issues. Santa Cruz County is unique and therefore several other focus areas (Indicators of Health, Child’s Health, Men’s Health, Women’s Health and Miscellaneous Health Information) have been added to the national agenda. Other areas of our nation have needed to place higher emphasis on specific focus areas and therefore, while similar, a report from another geographical area of our county would reflect different interests and needs. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is responsible for coordinating the effort to monitor the nation’s progress toward the objectives, using data from NCHS data systems as well as many other data sources. National data are gathered from more than 150 different data sources, from more than seven Federal Government Departments (Health and Human Services, Commerce, Education, Justice, Labor, Transportation, and the Environmental Protection Agency), and from voluntary and private non-governmental organizations. To the extent appropriate, data for the objective are provided for subgroups defined by relevant dimensions (such as sociodemographic subgroups of the population, health status, or major industrial classifications). Data are made available through DATA2010, http://wonder.cdc.gov/data2010/focus.htm an interactive database system accessible through the CDC WONDER system. Spreadsheet files containing Healthy People 2010-related data--including Leading Health Indicators, Selected Mortality Objectives, Selected Natality Objectives, and Health Status Indicators, by States are also available for downloading through the NCHS web site http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ . Because these objectives are national, not solely Federal, the achievement of these objectives is dependent in part on the ability of health agencies at all levels of government and on non-governmental organizations to assess objective progress.
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Getting around the 2003 The Almanac itself consists of 35 chapters,
each in Adobe Reader format called PDF. You will need the free Adobe
Reader available here
if you don't already have it. Acronyms Used in the Almanac AARP - American Association of Retired People CA - California CARe Team - Community Advocacy Resource CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CHIS - California Health Interview Survey HSA - Health Services Agency IOM - Institute of Medicine SCC - Santa Cruz County STD - Sexually Transmitted Disease
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