What kind of physical and mental health problems top the list among Health Share’s 252,000 members?
Analysis of 500 hours of analytical data from providers, hospitals and public health organizations is part of Health Share’s community health improvement plan.
This data “over time will look at closing the gap for people experiencing the greatest disparities,” said Sonja Ervin, a community advisory member at its meeting last week.
The top five conditions among children were obesity, asthma, attention deficit disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, while among adults aged 19-65, tobacco, high blood pressure, obesity, depression and diabetes topped the list.
For adults over age 65, a whopping 53 percent reported high blood pressure, 29 percent had diabetes with chronic heart and kidney disease and obesity rounding out the remainder.
[For more of this story, written by Jan Johnson, go to https://www.thelundreport.org/...sity-asthma-add-ptsd]
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