Acronyms
CDBG
The idea that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.
What is health equity?
The percentage of Black population in Oakland County.
What is 13.1%?
This community in Oakland County has the highest population of Hispanic/Latino residents.
What is Pontiac?
The total population of Oakland County.
What is 1.27 million?
EGLE
What is the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy?
Conditions in the environment in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
What are the Social Determinants of Health?
The percentage of occupied housing units in Oakland County that are housing burdened or pay over 30% of their income towards housing.
What is 24.6%?
This community shares the 48220 zip code with Ferndale and has a population of 2,374.
What is Royal Oak Township (or the Charter Township of Royal Oak)?
A program for first time mothers less than 29 weeks pregnant and eligible for WIC or Medicaid.
What is Nurse Family Partnership?
HIPAA
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
A long-term, systematic effort to address public health problems based on the results of community health assessment activities.
What is a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP)?
The racial/ethnic group that reported the highest rates of not having a healthcare provider at 25% in 2020.
What is Hispanic/Latino?
This city has the highest proportion of residents that speak languages other than English.
What is Troy?
An organization that provides a welcoming space where people of all sexual orientations, gender identities & expressions, and cultures can learn, grow, socialize and access the vital support they need!
What is Affirmations?
CLAS
What is culturally and linguistically appropriate services?
A combination of public policies, institutional practices, social forces, ideologies, and processes that generate and perpetuate inequities among races. Examples can include the racial gap in wealth, homeownership, education, historical redlining practices, among other factors.
What is structural racism?
In 2021, __ in 10 adults in OC reported having a disability (defined as having serious difficulty hearing, visual impairment, difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions, difficulty walking or climbing stairs, difficulty dressing or bathing, or difficulty doing errands alone.)
What is 1? (Or 11.2%)
This city has the largest number of parks in Oakland County.
What is Royal Oak?
The median age in Oakland County.
What is 41?
BRFSS
What is the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System?
The unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect a person's understanding, actions or decisions as they relate to people from different groups
What is implicit bias?
The difference in years between the census tract with the lowest life expectancy (Pontiac) and the census tract with the highest life expectancy (Troy).
What is 21 years?
This community has the highest percentage of senior residents in Oakland County.
What is Lake Angelus?
The amount that someone would need to be defined as having an elevated blood lead level in Michigan.
What is 3.5 µg/dL or greater?