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STATUS OF ORANGE COUNTY Health 4 <br /> Overall population growth in Orange County has increased 9.7 percent since 1980,showing a <br /> rapidly expanding population in the county. A greater percentage of women are single than men dug <br /> to higher rates of widowhood and divorce. High percentage rates of single women indicate a high <br /> poverty concentration among female older adults and heads of household with children. Almost 75 . <br /> percent of all women with children in Orange County are working, and approximately one-quarter of <br /> them have children under age five. Compared to state statistics,Orange County does not seem to <br /> have a serious problem with infant births to teenage women and infant mortality rates. However, <br /> whenever there are teenage mothers, children face risk factors associated with poverty. <br /> STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE/IMPROVEMENT <br /> • Provide more health clinics <br /> —Prenatal clinics <br /> —Mobile units <br /> —Night clinics <br /> —School-based clinics <br /> —Child care at clinics <br /> • Provide more caseworkers to refer clients <br /> —Referral to other available resources <br /> —Education for single parents <br /> • Provide comprehensive health care for teens <br /> • Critical need for comprehensive transportation services <br /> —Provide better coordination of transportation <br /> —Coordinate with existing human services system <br /> • Need for better employee health benefits <br /> —Need for guaranteed insurance plan with expanded benefits <br /> —Employers should provide prenatal programs <br /> -Required prenatal care in health insurance <br /> —Employers should examine and improve health benefits <br /> —Employers should provide prorated insurance benefits for part-time workers <br /> • Need licensing and malpractice coverage for retired physicians who volunteer their services <br /> • Need more non-categorized county funds which could be targeted at health care needs <br /> • <br />