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Strategic Issues Of Community Public Health In Champaign Region

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The strategic issues of community’s health are those crucial policy options or critical problems in relation to public health; those issues should be addressed as priorities for the community public health to achieve its vision (NACCHO, n.d.). The strategic issues have to reflect the MAPP phases results, at this level of the process shared vision and focusing and identification of the opportunities and challenges for community health improvements (NACCHO, n.d.).
The reported violent crime in Champaign County Illinois was 644 per 100,000 populations, substantially higher than the State of Illinois’ rate of 487 and the national violent crime rate of 408 (County Health Ranking, 2014)(Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014)(Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2014). In the other side, homicide rate in Champaign County Illinois was lower than that of Illinois State and the nation. The rate in Illinois State is more than double that in the county, where it was (7 per 100,000) in Illinois and (3 per 100,000) in the county. The national rate was (4.9 per 100,000) in 2013, which still lower than of our county Champaign (County …show more content…

The research showed that residents of this county have good environment to raise children and access to health care. Champaign County residents are satisfied with the outreach of faith-based churches and organizations. They were satisfied with the cost of healthcare, the quality of healthcare and the cost of healthcare. More than 90% of the population is insured, four percent received Medicaid and four percentage received Medicare. About 96 per 100,000 people in County of Champaign died due to heart disease, in comparison, Illinois and the Nation’s age-adjusted cardiac disease mortality rates were 134 per 100,000 population, and around 40 per 100,000 more than the Champaign County’s

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