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Clay County Community Health Committee

December 7, 2011

Present:Bob Sellers, CCH Deena Mosbarger, Clay County Health Department Carrie Schroeder, BSN Student, SIU Edwardsville

Darla Hout, CCH Jeff Workman, CCHD Angela Casolari, BSN Student, SIU Edwardsville

Marie Headlee, CCH Tammy Byers, CCHD Angela Wenthe, American Cancer Society

Brenda Streif, CCH Gretchen Paule, CCHDBridget Schnautz, Sherwin-Williams Randy Bukas, City of Flora

Lisa Cash, Country Financial Alex Haglund, Advocate Press

Recorder: Gretchen Paule

Agenda Item Presenter Discussion/Report Action Required

Special

Presentation: Clay

County Healthy

Living

A. Casolari

C. Schroeder

Angela Casolari and Carrie Schroeder, BSN students, Southern Illinois

University of Edwardsville, presented their semester project Clay CountyHealthy Living. They identified heart disease as the number one cause of

death in Clay County since 2001 and chose to address three risk factors of

heart diseasepoor nutrition, physical inactivity, and obesity. For each ofthese risk factors, the students obtained baseline data and introduced an

intervention in targeted populations. Carrie focused on the population ages

< 18 and Angela focused on the population ages 50+.

Targeted population - ages

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Next semester, a kinesiology student from SIU Edwardsville will intern at

the health department and continue these interventions.

Adoption of Mission

Statement

G. Paule Committee members were given a paper copy of the mission statement andguiding principles formulated during our Visioning meeting. Committee

unanimously voted to adopt mission statement.

Utilize mission statement throughout

IPLAN process. Create vision

statement after assessments.

Community Health

Survey

G. Paule On Tuesday, December 6th, Health Department staff collected surveys

during the fish fry and North Clay/Clay City basketball game in Louisville.

The night was very successful, collecting 86 surveys.

Committee members turned in their surveys. Results of the survey will be

presented at the next meeting.

Contact Gretchen or Deena if you

have additional surveys to turn in.

Results of the survey will be

presented at our next meeting.

Presentation:

Community Health

Status Assessment

G. Paule Prior to the meeting, a draft of the Community Health Status Report was

sent to Committee members to review. Todays presentation summarizes

main points from the report and identifies current health trends.

Demographics/Socioeconomic Characteristics:

Historically, Clay County has a lower median household income,higher unemployment rate, and higher percent of people living in

poverty compared to the state.

Randy Bukas stated that the countys current unemployment rate hasfallen to 11.2%.

The percent of Clay County residents with a high school degree andbachelors degree increased significantly between 2000 and 2009.

However, the county still falls behind the state in the proportion of

residents with a bachelors degree or higher.

General Health and Access to Care:

Leading causes of death in 2008 were cancer, heart disease, andchronic lower respiratory disease.

Clay County has higher mortality rates compared to the state. Thesefigures are not age-adjusted and are expected to be higher in an

older, aging population.

Begin to rank the top 3 health

priorities.

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Maternal and Child Health:

Teen birth rate higher than state and national rates. Clay County teen mothers were significantly more likely to receive

a high school diploma/GED compared to other teen mothers in the

state. Deena stated that this was due to a program administered by

the health department that provided teen moms with resources and

support to continue their education. However, this program was

recently eliminated by the Department of Human Services due to

budget constraints.

A higher percentage of expecting mothers receive adequate prenatalcare yet are more likely to have low birth weight/preterm infants.

Percent of Clay County mothers who smoke during pregnancy ismuch higher than the state.

Chronic Disease:

Clay County has higher cancer incidence rates but similar mortalityrates compared to the state. This shows the success of early cancerdetection programs. Because cancer is detected during its early

stages, chances are better to treat the cancer and reduce mortality.

County shows decline in percent of population with diabetes andsmoking rates.

Infectious Disease:

Rates of sexually transmitted diseases lower than state rates.Next Meeting G. Paule Our next meeting is scheduled for January 25, 2012 at Noon at the Clay

County Health Department where we will complete the Community Themes

and Strengths Assessment.