San Joaquin Health Preventable Childhood Illness Report

Reducing rates of childhood illness is a key public health objective, given that many of the conditions developed in childhood will negatively impact the individual well into adulthood. This report uses data on emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations and pediatric mortality to examine how families and communities in California’s San Joaquin Valley (SJV) are impacted by child morbidity and mortality. The relatively rare and costly health events explored here are associated with more negative self-reported health: they are indicative of the burden of disease faced by children and their families in the region.

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Last Updated March 17, 2021, 06:57 (UTC)
Created January 11, 2021, 08:46 (UTC)
Additional Information This Consortium is facilitated by the Central California Center for Health and Human Services and funded by The California Endowment.
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Citation C. (n.d.). Preventable Childhood Illness. Retrieved March 10, 2021, from http://www.sjcphs.org/
Contact Email diahannh@csufresno.edu
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Homepage URL http://www.fresnostate.edu/chhs/cvhpi/programs/sjvphc.html
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Program Central California Center for Health and Human Services
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Spatial/Geographic Coverage All residents in the San Joaquin Valley.
Years of Data 2017