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11 years ago · by · 0 comments

How Healthy is Santa Cruz County?

It’s not just diet and exercise—where people live matters to their health.

And in California, Santa Cruz County earns a decent rating for community health, according to the 2013 County Health Rankings released this week.

Santa Cruz comes in No. 13 in the state for health outcomes, measured by mortality and morbidity. The county ranks 10th for health factors, a broad category that includes health behaviors (like smoking), healthcare, the physical environment, and social and economic factors.

“These ratings are a snapshot of the health of the community,” said Dr. Lisa Hernandez, Santa Cruz County Health Officer.

Fifty-seven of California’s 58 counties were ranked. Rural Alpine County was too small to measure in many of the categories, officials said.

Santa Cruz County’s marks puts the county ahead of neighboring Monterey County but lagging behind Santa Clara County.

County Health Rankings 2013
County Health Outcomes Health Factors
Monterey 21 29
San Benito 10 23
Santa Clara 3 4
Santa Cruz 13 10

Santa Cruz has earned better ratings in prior years. Officials attributed the decline in rankings to other counties’ improving health, not worsening conditions in Santa Cruz County.

Some highlights from the report:

  • The county saw improvement in the number of adult residents who have graduated from high school, which up to 86 percent at last count. The low in the past four years was 77 percent.
  • Santa Cruz County ranked 16th in the state for access to recreational facilities.
  • The county’s motor vehicle crash death rate is the 9th lowest in California.

But 19 percent of children in the county live in poverty, and the ratio of physicians to patients climbed, from one doctor per 923 patients in 2012 to one per 1,047 this year.

Check out Santa Cruz County’s rankings in various categories over the past four years below. A lower rating is better.

Santa Cruz County Health Rankings
2010 2011 2012 2013
Health Outcomes (total) 8 7 10 13
Morality 6 7 10 10
Morbidity 7 7 13 20
Health Factors (total) 8 20 10 10
Health Behaviors 2 1 3 4
Clinical Care 19 24 13 12
Social & Economic Factors 13 17 23 21
Physical Environment 37 5 10 9

The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program began in 2010 as a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin.

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This story was taken form www.watsonville.patch.com and was written by Jennifer Squires. Scurich Insurance did not create this content–we just wanted to share it with you!

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11 years ago · by · 0 comments

Second Harvest Raises 3.6 Million Pounds of Food in Holiday Drive

The following article was taken from: Watsonville Patch

“Over the holidays until Jan. 15, locals contributed food to Second Harvest donation centers around Santa Cruz County.

Their goodwill paid off.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County raised 3.6 million pounds of food for its holiday food drive, Development Director Steve Bennett Thursday.

“Volunteers have been sorting the food and our 200 member agencies have begun distributing it to hungry people throughout Santa Cruz County,” said Bennett, pointing out that the food will be enough to feed people through March — a period when need is the greatest.

The money raised through the drive will be used to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables to supplement the non-perishable items, said Bennett.

The need for food aid in Santa Cruz County is up 38 percent, according to Second Harvest, which feeds 55,000 people in Santa Cruz County each month.”

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