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Mid-Mississippi Delta (MS) Profile sfdsdf
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Team Profile Summary
The Mid-Mississippi Delta Team (MMD) has targeted childhood obesity as the focus of its work. With the reduction in childhood obesity, the assumed consequences would be a reduction in Type II Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease. According to aneki.com, the United States has the highest obesity rate in the world. In 2005, Mississippi’s obesity rate of 30.9% was the highest in the nation. The rates are even higher in the African-American population, with obesity rates in boys as high as 49% and 39% in girls.
Mid-Mississippi Delta (MS) sfdsdf
Martin Luther King, Jr. County (WA) Profile sfdsdf
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Health Policy
Team Profile Summary
In King County, there are racial inequities in well-being that are influenced by such factors as: institutionalized racism, income, access to living-wage jobs, access to education and resource-rich schools, neighborhoods and access to safe, affordable housing, and criminal justice involvement. Racism and inequities in income, educational attainment, housing, and criminal justice involvement result in health disparities.
Martin Luther King, Jr. County (WA) sfdsdf
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Health Policy
Team Profile Summary
In King County, there are racial inequities in well-being that are influenced by such factors as: institutionalized racism, income, access to living-wage jobs, access to education and resource-rich schools, neighborhoods and access to safe, affordable housing, and criminal justice involvement. Racism and inequities in income, educational attainment, housing, and criminal justice involvement result in health disparities.
CPIPO Additional Resources sfdsdf
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- Amina P. Alio, Hamisa M. Salihu, Jennifer L. Kornosky, et al. Feto-infant Health and Survival: Does Paternal Involvement Matter?, Maternal Child Health J, Ocotober 2009
Marlboro County (SC) sfdsdf
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Team Profile Summary
The Marlboro County Inter-Agency is a non-profit organization with a 35-agency membership and houses the Marlboro County, South Carolina Place Matters Team.
Jefferson County (AL) Profile sfdsdf
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Health Policy
Team Profile Summary
Currently CPH/Jefferson County Place Matters Team serves six of the oldest and poorest communities in Jefferson County. CPH’s neighborhood outreach touches almost half of the African-American population in Jefferson County, and one-fourth of the African-American population in Alabama. The communities consist of 115,000 underserved minorities within the churches and surrounding neighborhoods.
Jefferson County (AL) sfdsdf
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Health Policy
Team Profile Summary
Currently CPH/Jefferson County Place Matters Team serves six of the oldest and poorest communities in Jefferson County. CPH’s neighborhood outreach touches almost half of the African-American population in Jefferson County, and one-fourth of the African-American population in Alabama. The communities consist of 115,000 underserved minorities within the churches and surrounding neighborhoods.
Cuyahoga County (OH) Profile sfdsdf
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Health Policy
Team Profile Summary
East Cleveland, Ohio is a small urban community faced with the consequences of population decline, poverty, high crime rates, limited resources, vacant/abandoned properties, derelict land and other environmental and social issues. The East Cleveland Health and Development (H&D) Committee was established in August 2007, through a shared commitment, in assisting with the revitalization of the community through the promotion of healthy land use and development.
Cuyahoga County (OH) sfdsdf
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Health Policy
Team Profile Summary
East Cleveland, Ohio is a small urban community faced with the consequences of population decline, poverty, high crime rates, limited resources, vacant/abandoned properties, derelict land and other environmental and social issues. The East Cleveland Health and Development (H&D) Committee was established in August 2007, through a shared commitment, in assisting with the revitalization of the community through the promotion of healthy land use and development.
