MHC IN THE NEWS Boston Magazine's Power 2008 Massachusetts Health Council Executive Director Susan Servais makes Boston Magazine's Extended Power List Click Here Sunday Boston Herald Lifetime of empowerment for girls By Colneth Smiley Jr. January 18, 2009 Click Here Boston Globe Letter to the Editor Fighting obesity: Workplace efforts By Susan Servais January 13, 2009 Click Here Boston Women's Business Journal/Boston Herald on-line Prevention is the key to cost control By Susan Servais January 1, 2009 Click Here Response in Boston Herald from Maryland to MHC Letter to the Editor Prevention first Friday, January 9, 2009 Click Here BLOGS WBUR'S CommonHealth Blog Changing Behavior Will Lower Health Care Costs by Susan Servais Saturday, January 10th, 2009 Click Here Charlie Baker's "Let's Talk Healthcare" Blog Drugs - STILL not the cost problem Click Here EVENTS NOVEMBER 2, 2009 MA Health Council Award Dinner VIEW PHOTOS APRIL 7, 2008 MA Health Council's "The Road to Affordability: Models to Control Health Care Costs and Improve Quality" Health & Human Service Secretary Dr. JudyAnn Bigby, CMS Regional Administrator Dr. Charlotte Yeh, and MHC Executive Director Susan Servais VIEW ADDITIONAL PHOTOS APRIL 12, 2006 MHC attends signing of Health Care Reform Bill VIEW PHOTOS OCTOBER 24, 2005 MA Health Council Award Dinner VIEW PHOTOS APRIL 4, 2005 Speaker of the House Salvatore DiMasi meets with MA Health Council Executive Committee MHC Executive Director Susan Servais with Mayor Thomas Menino at MHC Award Dinner

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MA HEALTH COUNCIL RELEASES REPORT TRACKING PREVENTABLE, COSTLY HEALTH ISSUES The  2008  MHC "Common Health for the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Trends in the Determinants of Health" was released at the State House by Senator Richard Moore and Representative Peter Koutoujian. The report tracks the trends of 11 preventable, costly health indicators and highlights the increasing trends in the areas of asthma, Hepatitis C, high school drop-out rates, obesity, poor oral health and domestic violence. Commissioner John Auerbach, Mary Laubry, Executive Director of Jane Doe, Inc., Dr. Mike Monopli of Delta Dental, Rachelle Wengler Bennett, Director of the Student Support Unit for the Dept. of Education, Dr. Alfred DeMaria, Director, Bureau of Communicable Disease for DPH all spoke in detail about the issues with rising trends that are of the greatest concern to the Council. Among the most dramatic findings in the report: MA continues to have the highest rate for violent crime in the Northeast with an increasing presence in girls and younger children. Hepatitis C rates are rising in ages 15-29. 15.4% of Massachusetts adults have asthma, 21% of middle school students have been diagnosed with asthma. There are 3 times the number of domestic violence deaths as there were in 2005. 3.8% of Massachusetts high school students dropped out of school (11,436 students). 23.4% of MA adults did not see a dentist in the past year. 59% of MA adults are overweight or obese. Read NECN.com article To view the full PDF version of the report, DOWNLOAD NOW

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