Sugar sweetened beverages. So, San Francisco Community Clinics partners see about 38,000 dental patient visits per year and its all in the lowincome and minority patients. All of our centers are located in the neighborhoods that were previously described by my colleagues and really were the people who can tell you on the ground what we see when we look in the mouth. Tooth decay is something that is often called the silent epidemic by the Surgeon General and its really the number one chronic disease in our chill chren in this country. Its 10 times more common than asthma, seventime more common than allergies and the Health Disparities are staggering in lowincome people in this country. [speaker not understood] multispectral disease which is why a vaccine is available for [speaker not understood] because part of what happens with dental decay, the nutritional and home Health Behavior is a hygiene pieces, Community Health [speaker not understood]. It is almost completely preventable. Unli
Country and in San Francisco is going up. The consumption of milk and other nutritious drinks or even water is decreasing. I was using the madness picture to kind of [speaker not understood]. [laughter] were going to excuse him. I want to apologize to the public that unfortunately this meeting lasted a little longer than we expected and i do need to go to another meeting. But one, i need to go brush my teeth. [laughter] and two, im proud to be a cosponsor with the leadership of supervisors cohen, wiener and maura round a measure i think all of us care about. And the Scientific Data is overwhelming and profound and something we need to set the example of in San Francisco. So, i just want to say na, and thank you. Thank you. applause and i just wanted to use the example from madness how [speaker not understood]. The Surgeon General reported Smoking Health first came out in 1964. Sfgovtv, can you please put the overhead on . It was not until 1988 when they actually banned smoking on short
2005 to 2007, that there has, there has been a decrease in sugary drink consumption among children 2 to 11. And, so, our interpretation of that is the impact thats having and educating parents about decreasing sugary drink consumption among young children. Unfortunately, when the kids reach the age like my children and they have access to the environment where sugary beverages are readily available, we can see in the most recent data, 2011 to 2012, weve had an increase in sugary beverage consumption among all youth across all ethnicities. The next slide points out, this is now looking at children and adolescents you can see in two or more glasses of sugary drinks by ethnicity. And what you can see here is that for latinos and asians, they actually drink more sodas. The reason why africanamericans are not shown here is because the California Health Interview Survey, but the use he of researchers will show you that they also have higher levels of soda consumption compared to whites skew
Yeah, i second that thought and colleen i have a question and thank you very much for the follow up. It was thorough and helpful. I dont have any questions regarding this particular motion but i was curious about what appeared in here to be kind of a pausity of data relating to the actual patients searched in the past and more related to what is the zip code the demographics of the zip code and i hope it adds. Our it system gets better as we have new programs and approve and constantly thinking how do we improve our Data Collection because i think that will lead to a more precise understanding who were serving and who we need to serve and arent. Certainly we will make note of that in future applications. Thank you. Further comments . If not were prepared for the vote. All in favor say aye. All those opposed . The resolution is passed. Congratulations commissioners. The next item on the agenda is a proposed changes to eligibility requirements for healthy San Francisco and the administra
Before you. So moved. And so i heard a move and a second move which say second so were ready for discussion. Discussion of the resolution . Commissioners, yes commissioner. Just for clarity this is the first time we have done this based on the new process, correct . So i am pleased we have the built in follow up that were going to see this because this is sort of our testing how this process works so i am pleased we have it in there. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner singer. Yeah, i second that thought and colleen i have a question and thank you very much for the follow up. It was thorough and helpful. I dont have any questions regarding this particular motion but i was curious about what appeared in here to be kind of a pausity of data relating to the actual patients searched in the past and more related to what is the zip code the demographics of the zip code and i hope it adds. Our it system gets better as we have new programs and approve and constantly thinking how do we improve o