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Attachment 5: BOMBOH Joint 04/01/04 FINAL DRAFT Hill, consistently ranked as one of the top public universities in the nation. Educational achievement for both public school districts is also higher than the state averages on mo st indicators. Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools is rated as the top achieving school district in the state. Both districts also experience lower than state average drop out rates, although there is a considerable difference between the two districts. • Strong UNC Health Care System The UNC Health Care System contains physician practices located in community settings both in this county and in other counties, extensive outpatient services, specialty referral services, and four hospitals (Children's, Women's, Neuropyschiatric, and North Carolina Memorial). In addition, the hospital is a Level III Trauma Center. While UNC is a state hospital that serves patients from all 100 counties in North Carolina, nearly 38Th Care Orange County residents saw a physician associated with one of the UNC Heal System practices in the past year. • Low diabetes rates. The death rate due to diabetes in Orange County is far below both the 2010 North Carolina Healthy Carolinians goal and the US Healthy People 2010 goal. It is difficult to determine how many people are actually living with diabetes, though the 2002 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey indicated only 3% of Orange County residents had been told by their doctor that they were diabetic. A low death rate may indicate that those persons with diabetes are successfully managing their disease; not that we have less of it in our population. "I have learned a lot that I didn't know before about my condition (diabetes), medications, and how to take them. This clinic was very helpful. Diabetes Foot Clinic Paf•ticipant • Low smoking rates. Only 12.8% of Orange County adults reported that they were smokers in 2002. The NC 2010 objective is 12.5 %. Among high school students however, the rates are higher. Both school districts are now 100% tobacco free and there is a new teen tobacco prevention project being implemented in both school districts. A significant number of area tobacco fanners have begun growing alternate crops such as strawberries, lessening the dependence of the community on tobacco. (Include number for Quit Now NC?) ) Good dental prevention indicators. This is particularly true of children where we have had success with early prevention programs. 85% of the fifth graders receiving screening were cavity free in 2001-2002, right at the NC 2010 objective. 49% of fifth graders had sealants on their permanent teeth. All major public water systems in Orange County fluoridate their water, a significant preventive measure for reducing caries. Good maternal and infant health indicators.