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Community Nutrition

Community Nutrition. What is community nutrition? What is health? CN and trends in healthcare Risk reduction and disease prevention. Definitions. Nutrition = Community = “unified body of individuals with common characteristics or interests who live in a particular area”.

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Community Nutrition

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  1. Community Nutrition • What is community nutrition? What is health? • CN and trends in healthcare • Risk reduction and disease prevention

  2. Definitions • Nutrition = • Community = “unified body of individuals with common characteristics or interests who live in a particular area”

  3. What is Community Nutrition? • Community Nutrition (CN) strives to improve the health and well-being of individuals and groups within the community • Three arenas: • Involves socioeconomic, political, cultural, and psychological aspects of food…

  4. CN vs. Public Health • CN draws on dietetics and public health • public vs private • Public Health = societal efforts to promote/restore people’s health • 1900s: • now:

  5. Ten Leading Causes of Death in the U.S. (1900) Rank Cause of death 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pneumonia/influenza Tuberculosis Diarrhea and enteritis Heart disease Stroke Liver disease Accidents Cancer Diphtheria Meningitis Causes in which diet plays a part Causes in which alcohol plays a part

  6. Ten Leading Causes of Death in the U.S. (2000) Rank Cause of death 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Heart disease Cancer Stroke Lung diseases Accidents Diabetes Pneumonia/influenza Alzheimer’s disease Kidney disease Septicemia Causes in which diet plays a part Causes in which alcohol plays a part

  7. What is Health? • Absence of _____________ • State of:

  8. Components of a Healthful Lifestyle

  9. Clinical Medical Trends in Nutrition/Healthcare Community nutrition interfaces with the realities of the health care system

  10. Reality Prevention is more effective, but… prevention efforts are _______________ Outcomes can also be hard to_______

  11. Health Insurance • Fee-for-Service (private) • traditional individual or group • Managed care (private) • group, usually employer-based • Public (Medicare and Medicaid) • low SES • aged, blind, disabled • are entitlement programs • Uninsured • working poor, seasonal workers • uninsurable

  12. U.S. Healthcare: Insurance Coverage Sources: Census Bureau, CDC (NCHS); August 2004

  13. U.S. Healthcare: Insurance Coverage Sources: Census Bureau, CDC (NCHS); Accessed September 2009 Heyman KM, Barnes PM, Schiller JS. Early release of selected estimates based on data from the 2008 National Health Interview Survey. National Center for Health Statistics. June 2009. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm

  14. Trends in the Healthcare System • Increase in managed care: HMOs, PPOs • Increased costs • (Trend in jobs: part-time)

  15. Health Continuum

  16. Risks and Disease Prevention • Risk = • Risk assessment =

  17. Who is at Risk? • Depends on people and hazards considered • Individuals • referral • ill • Groups • risk factors • Population • known problems

  18. U.S. Health Disparities: 2008 Sources: Census Bureau, CDC (NCHS); Accessed September 2009; Health: United States, 2008; National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 55, No. 14, May 2, 2007; Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007

  19. U.S. Health Disparities ~1998

  20. Healthy People 2010 • Mission = creating healthy people in healthy communities • 2 Goals: • increase the quality of life and years of healthy life • eliminate health disparities

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