Meetings/20190925
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Wednesday September 25 2019 Climate Ready San Mateo - Building Health, Economic, and Social Resiliency to Climate Change
Trends of chronic disease are rising. in no small part due to aging.
San Mateo Health Department: "In God we Trust, all others bring data"
smcAllTogetherBetter.org is their site.
People born in EPA have a life expectancy 17 years shorter than people born across the highway.
new phrase: Vehicular Housing. new coastside phrase: Our Ecology is Our Economy
Southcoast is poster child for a region which will be an early stressed region. This is called being a 'Frontline Community'
- Southcoast: 65+ YO > 21%
- rest of co: 14%
- state: 11.9%
- age related disease, low or fixed income, low mobility all add up on the southcoast. statistically a mirror of EPA.
- heat waves will hurt more elder members of communities.
- percent of housholds with no aged > 14 speaking english is about 10%.
- poverty rate is 33%, county average is 19.5%, State average is 39.5%
new stat: Students are 15% of the population in SMC, but visit local businesses more thatn 50% of the population
https://discovery.cdph.ca.gov/ohe/CCHVIz/
https://climatereadysmc.org/convening-6 all the talks for this convening