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6/21/17 How Does Active Transport Affect Public Health? Public Health in Active Transportation Projects Presented at the Active Transportation Projects Workshop June 7, 2017 Sharon Minnick, MS, PhD Healthy Lives, Epidemiologist Thriving

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Public Health in Active Transportation Projects

Presented at the Active Transportation Projects Workshop June 7, 2017

Sharon Minnick, MS, PhD Epidemiologist Tulare County Public Health Healthy Lives,

Thriving Communities

How Does Active Transport Affect Public Health?

Public Health is an ATP Goal

  • SB99, Ch.8.2380(d):

Enhance public health, including reduction

  • f childhood obesity through the use of

programs including, but not limited to, projects eligible for Safe Routes to School Program funding.

Data Resources, a Local Perspective

  • Tulare County Community Health

Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan

  • Transportation Injury Mapping System

(TIMS)

  • Health Disadvantage Index for California
  • California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
  • AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition
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Community Health Assessment

Tchhsa.org

Main Body of the “CHA”

  • Demographics
  • Chronic Disease
  • Environmental Health and

Asthma

  • Key Findings for Tulare

County:

– Less exercise opportunities – Adult asthma and COPD rates are high – Adult obesity rates are high

Appendix A – Statistics

Accidental Death Trends, 2011-2015

Appendix C – Focus Groups

Ø In 4 of the 9 focus groups, participants asked for increased

  • pportunities for

physical activity

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Tulare County Health Improvement Plan

  • Not yet finalized, but will be available on

the tchhsa.org website

  • 2 strategic areas for improvement

– Access to care – Diabetes

  • Will include goals to increase physical activity

Transportation Injury Mapping System

Tims.berkeley.edu

TIMS: SRTS Collison Map Viewer

SWITRS GIS Map

Under collision factors, choose pedestrian collisions, bicycle collisions

  • r both
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SWITRS Query & Map

2012-2014, Tulare County, Pedestrian Collisions,

Health Disadvantage Index

Public Health Alliance of Southern California – phasocal.org

AskCHIS NE

  • Can map by city or zipcode
  • Ranks zipcodes across the

state

  • Only available for areas >

1,000 population

  • Can group several zipcodes

together

  • AskCHIS has more topics, but

at county level

Askchisne.ucla.edu

“Neighborhood Edition”

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Woodlake: 15.7%

Grouping Areas

Richgrove’s population is too small

Richgrove + Ducor: 12.3%

Other Resources

  • Community Commons:

www.communitycommons.org census tract level data & mapping

  • RWJF County Health Rankings
  • Kidsdata.org
  • California Dept of Public Health

– EpiCenter – Healthy Community Indicators – CalEnviroScreen 3.0 – Cal. Department of Education (CDE) Dataquest

  • Physical fitness testing > % of students with a healthy

weight (5th, 7th, and 9th grades)

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Collect Your Own Data!

  • Walkability checklists
  • Student & Parent Surveys
  • Collaborate with law enforcement for

speed checks

  • Student travel tallies
  • Photo or video voice projects

– Qualitative data but can be powerful for getting support from local officials

Examples

Questions?

Sharon Minnick Epidemiologist, Tulare County Public Health sminnick@tularehhsa.org 624-8499