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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 3 <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: March 13, 1997 <br /> SUBJECT: Orange County Healthy Carolinians Task Force Report <br /> DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes -_ _No <br /> BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes _ No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> HEALTH DIRECTOR' S OFFICE X2411 <br /> 1. Summary of the Orange County <br /> Community Health Assessment . TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> 2 . Priority issues for Orange Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> County health improvement . Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> 3 . Complete report of the Orange <br /> County Community Health Assessment . <br /> PURPOSE: <br /> To provide a report of the Community Health Assessment from the Orange <br /> County Healthy Carolinas Task Force, outline the next steps and <br /> expected outcomes of the task force work and entertain any comments and <br /> questions the Board of Commission members may have. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> The Board of Commissioners appointed the Healthy Carolinians Task Force <br /> based on recommendations from the Orange County Board of Health. A <br /> Steering Committee with representatives from the orange County Health <br /> Department, UNC Hospitals and UNC School of Public Health has organized- <br /> the work of the task force. After an introductory meeting of the task <br /> force in October, 1995, the parties to the Steering Committee jointly <br /> funded a contract with the School of Public Health to carry out a <br /> community health assessment . This assessment involved analysis of <br /> existing biostatistics from the North Carolina Center for Health and <br />