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07/25,11990 10254 FPOM A BETTED IMAGE PRINTING T4 19196443004 <br />STATUS OF GRANGE COUNTY Health <br />F.O5 <br />Overall population growth in Orange County has increased 9.7 percent since 1980, showing an expanding po u. <br />divorced a the county. There is a greater percent of single women than men clue to longer female life ex anc and more <br />divorced women in the County. High percentage rates of single women suggest a high poverty concentration mon <br />female older adults and heads of household with children. Almost 75 percent of all women with children in Orange g <br />County are working, and approximately one-quarter of them have children under age five. Compared to state statistics, <br />Orange County does not seem to have a serious problem with births to teenage women and infant mortality rates. How- <br />ever, whenever there are teenage mothers, children face risk factors associated with poverty. (po}7elstein 19$9). <br />logo <br />PERCEIVED NEEDS FOR CHANGE /IMPROVEMENT <br />Provide more health clinics <br />— Provide more prenatal clinics <br />-- Provide more mobile units <br />-- Provide night clinics <br />—Provide school -based clinics <br />Provide 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 />CURRENT INITIATIVES (Health) <br />• The County Health Department has: <br />-- Expanded health care for teens <br />— Expanded health clinics <br />