Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL
Part I - General Administration
Subpart 5 - Health Planning
Chapter 111 - Area Level Planning
Section I-11113 - Health Status

a. Cancer Mortality: To reduce the number of deaths attributable to cancer;

b. Premature Mortality from disease: To reduce the number of deaths due to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, and diabetes mellitus;

c. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse: To contain alcoholism and drug abuse in the area and prevent increase beyond current levels;

d. Hypertension: To increase the percentage of people with high blood pressure who have been identified and are under treatment to a higher percentage than the national average;

e. Infant Mortality: To reduce the number of infant deaths by over 25 percent;

f. Accidental Deaths: To reduce the number of deaths from non-motor vehicular accidents among persons under 35-a high risk group-by 10 percent;

g. Preventable disease: To reduce the number of preventable diseases such as diptheria, measles, mumps, polio, or tetanus to as close to zero as possible;

h. Dental Disease and Tooth Loss: To reduce tooth decay among children, and tooth loss among adults;

i. Vision Problems and Loss of Sight: To reduce uncorrected vision problems among children and adults, and to reduce the number of people in the health service area who become blind;

j. Reportable Venereal Disease: To reduce the number of cases of gonorrhea and syphilis, particularly in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes.

a. Cancer Mortality: To reduce the age-adjusted mortality rate for the Mid-Louisiana Health Service Area to a low or lower rate than the rate for the United States.

b. Emergency Medical Services: To contain the accident mortality rate for the Mid-Louisiana Health Service area and not exceed the national rate.

c. Perinatal Care Services: To reduce the rates for perinatal mortality, neonatal mortality, fetal mortality and incidence of low birth weight infants and to make the rates more comparable with the corresponding annual rates for the United States, especially among non-whites in poor or rural areas.

d. Substance Abuse: To reduce the incidence and prevalence of alcohol and drug abuse in the HSA.

e. Disability: To reduce disability associated with acute and chronic conditions among the population of the HSA.

f. Mental Health: To improve the mental health status of the population of the HSA.

g. Suicide: To reduce the number of deaths from suicide in the area, especially in the 15-24 age group.

h. Institutionalization: To reduce the percentage of persons 65 + requiring care in a long term care facility.

i. Dental Disease and Tooth Loss: To reduce tooth decay among children, and tooth loss among adults.

j. Vision Problems and Loss of Sight: To reduce uncorrected vision problems among children and adults, and to reduce the number of people in the area who become blind.

a. Accidents-Burn/Trauma Treatment: To reduce the number of deaths associated with accidents, especially motor vehicular accidents.

b. Long Term Care/Support System: To maintain the population most vulnerable to institutionalization at maximum levels of psychological, physical and social well-being and to reduce the percentage of persons age 65 + in long term care facilities by 6 percent by 1987; and to reduce the percentage of persons with developmental disabilities in long term care facilities by 3 percent by 1987.

c. Infant Mortality: To reduce the rate of deaths of infants from birth to one year of age to 14.5/1,000 live births by 1987.

d. Cardiovascular Diseases: To reduce the death rate from heart and cerebrovascular diseases.

e. Venereal disease: To reduce incidence of venereal diseases in North Louisiana by 5 percent by 1985; to reduce the gonorrhea rate from 643 per 100,000 persons in 1978 to 611 per 100,000; to reduce the syphilis rate from 19 per 100,000 in 1978 to 18 per 100,000.

f. Cancer: To reduce by 1987 the number of deaths attributable to cancer by 5 percent.

g. Respiratory diseases: To reduce by 1987 the number of deaths attributable to respiratory diseases in North Louisiana from 24.2/100,000 to 10.1/100,000 or a reduction of 17 percent.

h. Kidney disease: To increase by 1985 the referral rate (discovery rate) of patients developing End Stage Renal Disease by 70 percent while increasing the number of transplant procedures by 23 percent and reducing the corresponding dialysis care mortality by 2.1 percent.

i. Diabetes Mellitus: To reduce by 1984 the diabetic death rate in North Louisiana from 23.4/100,000 to 16.2/100,000.

j. Dental Disease and Tooth Loss: To reduce tooth decay among children, and tooth loss among adults.

k. Vision Problems and Loss of Sight: To reduce uncorrected vision problems among children and adults, and to reduce the number of people in the area who become blind.