Boston Magazine's Power 2008 Massachusetts Health Council Executive Director Susan Servais makes Boston Magazine's Extended Power List Click HereSunday 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
OCTOBER 20, 2008 MA Health Council's Annual Award Dinner Award Recipient Marva Serotkin, Senate President Therese Murray, Award Recipient Deb Enos, MHC
Exec. Dir. Susan Servais, Senator Richard Moore.
Master of Ceremonies Peter Meade, Susan Servais, Deborah Enos, Dinner Chairman Ralph
Fuccillo, Marva Serotkin, MHC President Dr. Marylou Buyse. VIEW ADDITIONAL 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
OCTOBER 15, 2007 MA Health Council's Annual Award Dinner MHC Executive Director Susan Servais with Attorney General Martha Coakley.
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.