Accordingly, the county manages state laws in a specific location; it includes the management of parks, hospitals, fire services, libraries, schools, courts, roads, law enforcement and others. Townships are rural locations …show more content…
Some community health institutions that participated in the assessment include Penn State Health St. Joseph’s Reading Health System, Berks Community Health and many others. The result reported that there is an interrelationship between races and ethnicity, gender, economic and other factors that tremendously, affect a person’s health condition. In fact, the collected data involve secondary statistics, such as, the location of health centers, grocery stores, parks and others. These aspects are considered social determinants of health situations. Presently, in Berks county one out 6 persons tend to smoke, one out of three are obese or overheavy. Indeed, others health conditions, such as, high blood pressure, cholesterol, depression, and other mental health conditions’ rate is high. Truly, 200,000 individuals were reported obese in 2016, 175,00 present depression symptoms. Similarly, population differ according to poverty and age. Most young citizens present behavioral issues as well as alcohol and drug additions (Center for Opinion Research, …show more content…
Similarly, adolescent pregnancy, poverty, low parental education, single parent families, poor prenatal care, and other characteristics affect the Berks County family’s stability. In fact, the investigation revealed that 14% of the population lives below the poverty level. Investigation reported, the city of Reading’s citizens living below the poverty level with 38.7% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012). Certainly, the issue impact child’s growth and development. As data show, there is a gap that affect children’s health in Berks County Pennsylvania. The total number of children in the state of Pennsylvania, under the age of 18 is 2,690,274 (Kids Count Data Center, 2015) where only 258, 455 are enrolled in the CHIP program (KFF.Org, 2015). Exactly, in Berks county, there is a health care need for children from 0-5 years (Pennsylvania Department of Health,