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rti'S rff4 r f. Local attitudes toward health care.--A county-wide survey of consumer perceptions is not available. However the Family Planning Advisory Committee, composed of consumers and providers , furnishes a mechanism f gauging some consumer perceptions and concerns. The Board of Health, w its access to the public, both through Board meetings and individual contacts with citizens and organizations, provides another mechanism. g. Mortality, morbidity, and personal health care.--The 1974-1978 age-race. adjusted death rate in Orange County is 7. 24, which is lower than the 8, for the State. The adjusted rates by cause of death in the County paral those of the State, but are generally lower. For example, the rate for heart disease was by far the highest for both North Carolina and Orange County, but Orange County's rate was 202.274/100,000 compared to North Carolina's rate of 237.786/100,000. The rates for males reflects a continued vulnerability among that sex (310.940 for white males compared 114.389 for white females; 264.419 for nonwhite males compared to 167.35 for nonwhite females), lt is interesting to note, and may be a factor o the small populations involved, but the rate for nonwhite. males in Orang County (264.419) is substantially lower than that for the nonwhite males in the State as a whole (365.627). The next highest mortality rate in Orange County iS for cancer: 114.940, compared to 127.973 for North Carolina. Third comes cerebra- vascular disease with a lower rate (47.846) in Orange County than in the State (66.369). The accident rates in Orange County and the State are also comparable (43.455 and 55.464, respectively). The infant mortality rate for Orange County was 21.0 for 1979, while for the State it was 15.2. However, the five year rates (1975-1979) are closer: 16.6 for Orange County and 16.7 for the State. 1979 rates for whites (11.2 for North Carolina, 18.2 for Orange County) were lower than for nonwhites (23.3 for North Carolina and 30.2 for Orange County). The county rates for the five year period (14.6 for whites and 22.3 for non- whites) more closely match the State's (13.2 for whites and 23.3 for nonwhites). Morbidity data is somewhat limited, with comparative rates available only for two sexually transmitted diseases. In eeoh case the Orange County rate is lower than the State's (44.4/10,000 for Gonorrhea compete( to 66.7; and 2.0 for Syphillis compared to 2.6). h. Other.-' --N/A