BOH Final Minutes of May 26, 2021

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MINUTES - Draft ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH May 26, 2021 • Social vulnerability refers to the resilience of communities when confronted by external stresses on human health. Such stresses include natural disasters or disease outbreaks. Reducing social vulnerability can decrease both human suffering and economic loss. • The federal government created the SVI to aid in planning in the response and recovery of some of these disasters. • Each census tract is based on fifteen social factors, including poverty, lack of vehicle access, and housing. They are groups them into four related themes. ■ Socioeconomic status ■ Household composition ■ Race, ethnicity and language ■ Housing and transportation • Ms. Sheridan displayed the OC Overall SVI map along with maps designated by the four themes indicating the varying levels of vulnerability. Ms. Sheridan shared how the maps give pertinent information such as indicators to inform the OCHD where they may be a need for more interpreters or a need for more mobile clinics in a certain area due to a lack of access to a vehicle. She also provided a link to the NC DHHS Vaccines by Census Tract - https:Harcg.is/OW9LK8 • OC Vaccine Data can be retrieved: ■ State Dashboard - Looks at the county population as a whole. ■ SVI and Vaccination Map — Only looks at the population eligible for vaccinations, which is ages 12 and up. • Some noted census tracts: ■ In general, the more rural areas of the county have lower vaccination rates. ■ Other than UNC, the lowest rate of vaccination OC has is 52% of the eligible population. ■ The two census tracts that contain most of UNC's campus have very low rates of vaccination (7.4% and 14.4%). Some factors for this include: o Students using permanent address (related to the insurer's home address) instead of on-campus address. o Much lower on-campus population than in previous years. The BOH members had questions that were addressed by Ms. Sheridan. B. Health & Human Services Consulting Group Vaccination Presentation Brennan Bouma, OC Sustainability Coordinator, and Beverly Scurry, BOH Strategic Manager, gave a presentation of the Human Services Vaccine Consulting Group's (HSVCG) activities. The group was formed to address equitable vaccine distribution. Below are some of the highlights. • The function of the group was pulling together human services providers from various county departments with human service providers who are embedded in the communities that the OCHD is trying to reach, particularly those who work in historically marginalized populations. • Barriers addressed included: ■ Transportation o Collaboration with OC Public Transportation provided transporation to any community member that wanted to receive a vaccine with transporation. ■ Language S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda &Abstracts\2021 Agenda &Abstracts/ May Page 2