Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Bechara Choucair, M.D. City of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Nov 17, 2014
Chicago Department of Public HealthCommissioner Bechara Choucair, M.D.
City of ChicagoMayor Rahm Emanuel
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Challenges to Change
• Dwindling local health department resources – 12% overall decrease in personnel since 2008 for
all LHDs– Large jurisdictions hit the hardest
• Infrastructure developed over 100 years ago– Tradition creates inertia that impedes change
efforts
• Political environments – One of several City agencies– Accountable to both Mayor and City Council
• Interest groups
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Counseling and Education
Clinical Interventions
Long-Lasting Protection Interventions
Changing the Context to Make Individuals’ Default Decisions Healthy
Socioeconomic Factors
Increasing Population Impact
Increasing Individual Effort Needed
Chicago Department of Public HealthCommissioner Bechara Choucair, M.D.
City of ChicagoMayor Rahm Emanuel
HEALTHY CHICAGOCHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH
TRANSFORMING THE HEALTH OF OUR CITY
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February – May2011
August 20112010
Evolution of Healthy Chicago
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Healthy Chicago Targets
Chicago Department of Public HealthCommissioner Bechara Choucair, M.D.
City of ChicagoMayor Rahm Emanuel
IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR
IT’S ABOUT HOW WE BEHAVE AS A CITY
HEALTHY CHICAGOChicago Department of Public Health
Public Health
Public Schools
Transporta- tion
Planning & Devlpt
Park District
Business Affairs
Family Services
Mayors’ Office
Police
Disabilities
Public Housing
City Colleges
Law
Cultural Affairs
Public Transit
Aviation
Buildings
Facilities/Fleet
Streets & Sanitation
Libraries
Interagency Council
Healthy Chicago Partnerships
Tobacco
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Opportunities Considerations
Opportunities Considerations
Tobacco: Opportunities and Considerations
Tobacco
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Tobacco Victories
• Increased Cigarette Tax
• Banned Flavored Tobacco Sales Near Schools
• Regulate E-Cigarettes
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Tobacco Tax Increase
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Ban of Flavored TobaccoSales Near Schools
• 4 Town Hall Meetings following Mayoral request
• Over 200 residents, local and national content experts participated
• Ordinance passed in December 2013
• Chicago is first City to include menthol in flavored tobacco regulations
• Report included over 25 policy recommendations at local, state and federal levels.
• Adopted by Board in October 2013
• Submitted to Mayor in November 2013
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Regulating ElectronicCigarettes
Partners advocated for:
• Keeping e-cigarettes behind counters
• Prohibiting sales to minors
• Requiring tobacco licenses for e-cigarette sales
• Adding electronic smoking devices under the Clean Indoor Air Ordinance.
January 15th passage of ordinance
Aldermen noted they wanted to:
• “stand with public health”
and
• “be on the right side of
history”
Public Awareness Campaigns Reinforce Need for Change
BURNED by Menthol campaign generated
22,775,407 media impressions
Take Pride, Leave Cigarettesgenerated 12,492,530
impressions
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More Smokers SeekingCessation Support
• 24,496 calls in 2013
• 10,000 more calls than 2012
• >73% of callers were African
American or Hispanic
• More than half were uninsured
University of Illinois at Chicagobecame a Tobacco-Free Campusfor total of:
• 5 smoke-free institutions of higher learning
• 6 smoke-free hospital campuses
Chicago Housing Authority designated 2 new 100% smoke-free complexesfor total of:
• 610 smoke-free units in six developments
• 3,250 units of private multi-unit housing
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More Smoke-Free Environments
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Chicago Leads the Nation
Mayor Emanuel receiving African American Tobacco Leadership Council’s Visionary Elected Official Award
The federal government is currently considering:
• Cigarette tax increase• Stronger rules on menthol• Regulating electronic cigarettes
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Adult Smoking is Down
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Youth Smoking is Down…
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… and Taxes are Up
Obesity
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Opportunities Considerations
Opportunities Considerations
Obesity: Opportunities and Considerations
Obesity
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Obesity Successes
• Increased access to healthy & affordable food
• More opportunities for physical activity
• Focus on CPS students
• Build healthier neighborhoods
• Grow food
• Expand healthy food enterprises
• Strengthen the food safety net
• Serve healthy food and beverages
• Improve eating habits
• Healthy vending machines in all City buildings
• Launched Healthy Vending Challenge
• Follow efforts of Parks and CPS
Increasing Access to Healthy FoodCitywide Food Plan Healthy Vending
• 15 carts in neighborhoods for 2013
• 15 planned for 2014
• ~20 jobs created
• 40 persons trained in retail sales
Farmers for Chicago• Partnership with Growing Power • 5 acres of vacant lots available• Training for local farmers and help installing equipment• 15 acres overall operate as farms or
breaking ground
Produce Carts Urban Farms
Increasing Access to Healthy Food
Increased Opportunities forPhysical Activity
• 2,035 bikes, 300 stations• 12,133 annual memberships• 131,984 24-hour passes• >1M trips, >2million miles
Dearborn St. Complete Street
Divvy Bike Share Program
• 200 miles of on-street protected, buffered and shared bike lanes
• More than 13,000 bike racks, and sheltered parking
• A 645-mile network of biking facilities by 2020 will provide a provide a bicycle accommodation within half-mile of every Chicagoan.
Before After
• 61 events• 13,173 participants• Twice the number from
2012
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Focus on CPS Students New PE policy requires
• 30 minutes of daily PE (or 150 minutes weekly) at elementary schools
• Daily PE for high schools
$2.25M grant will support implementation
Estimates of obesity prevalence for CPS students in kindergarten, 2003-12
Access to Care
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Opportunities Considerations
Opportunities Considerations
Access to Care: Opportunities and Considerations
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Access to Care
• 108 librarians trained • > 100 events at 26 branches
Engaging Libraries
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2013 study of 3,402 artists found:
• 43% did not have insurance
88% said they couldn’t afford it
• 37% of the 1,927 with coverage paid for it themselves
6 times greater than general pop that pays for private, non-group insurance.
• 55% did not understand or were unclear about the ACA
• 3 hour event; 50 navigators
• 1-hour appointments• 125 persons completed
or began enrollment process
• 12,000 licensed public chauffeurs in Chicago
• 300 present daily for license renewal at a single City location with waits of up to 2 hours
• Many self-employed
• Chicago study of cab drivers found:
70% uninsured (v. 20%)
4.6% eat enough produce (v.22%)
6% meet exercise standards
(v. 21%)
~ 50% of drivers in NYC and San Francisco uninsured
Reaching Chicago’s Taxi Drivers
• 3 onsite navigators• Education in waiting area• 7-9 enrollments daily
• Chicago City Colleges
• 7 campuses• ~ 120,000 students• ~6,000 faculty
• Events at 6 campuses
• 206 Enrolled• 472 Educated
The Young Invincibles
Public Housing ResidentsThrough CHA events and partners, 537 residents have either enrolled or started the insurance enrollment process
Operation Warm
11 Community Service and Senior Centers
655 enrolled
Family and Support Services & CDPH Sites Uptown and Englewood HIV
Sites
Enrollment at Family Flu Clinics
423 enrolled
Aviation~200 non-City employees work at O’Hare
6-hour education & enrollment event
Focus on small businesses later in year
Enroll 15,000 students over 2 years
Grant period: Oct. 2013 – Sept. 2015LISC - $1,550,000
Four Partners• North River• South West Organizing Project• Logan Square Neighborhood
Assn.• Enlace
The Children’s Initiative
Over 20,000 uninsured children were eligiblefor coverage prior to the passage of the ACA
Illinois ACA Insurance Enrollment 10/1/ 2013 through 4/15/ 2014
~ 504,000 Illinois residents gained coverage
Innovations in Technology
AdvancingHealthy ChicagoThrough Technology
Innovations in TechnologyProjects
Innovations in TechnologyStrategy
Open Data PortalSpurs Innovation
Chicago Health Atlas is aDatabase
• De-identified electronic health record data for ~1 million Chicagoans
• In-patient and out-patient visits spanning 2006-2011
• Individual patient records matched across institutions
Chicago Health Atlas is aCollaboration• Informatics researchers from multiple
healthcare institutions
• Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (CHITREC)
• Chicago Community Trust
• Chicago Department of Public Health
Chicago Health Atlas is aWebsite
ChicagoHealthAtlas.org
Social Network AnalysisTwitter
Current Applications
FoodBorne Chicago
FoodBorne Chicago
OpenPeople Tweet about their health 4 days beforeseeing their doctor
SurveillanceTweets lead us to illnesses in real time
ActionableSubmissions are investigated if warranted
Social Media is Changing How We CommunicateMeeting conversations on Twitter with aPublic Health Service
FoodBorne ChicagoCompleting the Service Circle
CLICKS & REPORT
RESIDENT TWEETS
ONLINE RESULTS
FoodBorne Chicago
FoodBorne Chicago
• 2,848 Tweets Classified
• 313 Tweets Responded To
• 275 Reports Submitted
• 175 Inspections
Predictive AnalyticsFood Inspections
Currently• 32 Inspectors• 623 Inspections/Inspector• 15,176 Food Establishments• 2,715,000 Chicagoans
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention• Many food borne illnesses go unreported• 1 in 6 Americans (48 million people) get sick• 128,000 are hospitalized• 3,000 die of foodborne diseases
To Meet Requirements of Inspections• Do we increase productivity?• Do we increase workforce?
Predictive AnalyticsFood Inspections
Predictive AnalyticsFood Inspections
Project managed by: • CDPH Food Safety Division
• Department of Innovation and Technology
• Civic Consulting Alliance
• Allstate
Predictive AnalyticsFood Inspections Test of Model
While Data Mining for the Analytics Project…
• While the number of food inspections is trending up, the number of fails is down, as is the rate of fails.
• Nine months of 2013 had fewer fails than any of the same months in the previous 3 years.
• Every month of 2013 had a lower rate of fails than any of the same months in the previous 3 years.
Predictive AnalyticsLead
WhereDiscover where greatest risk for lead is in homes for inspectors to test.
WhoDiscover areas of highest risk for child lead poisoning to prevent poisoning.
Actively Prevent IllnessesPrioritizes inspections instead of passively waiting for lead poisoning to occur.
Why Healthy Chicagois Making a Difference
Partnerships Policies
Technology and
Innovation
Public Awareness
City Participation is Growing
Healthy Chicago Partnerships
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