Menu

In the News

Prevention Efforts in Tuolumne County, part of PHI’s CA4Health program, Featured in Forbes

Prevention efforts in California's rural Tuolumne County, part of PHI's CA4Health program, are featured in this Forbes column . The program is funded through the Affordable Care Act's Prevention and Public Health Fund.

Before you can improve the health of a community, you need to understand its problems. So when Tuolumne, a small county in central California that includes parts of Yosemite National Park, was awarded a $237,000-a-year federal grant last year from the Prevention and Public Health Fund (part of a $5.9 million grant for small and rural counties in California administered by the nonprofit Public Health Institute), the first step Health Officer Todd Stolp took was to dive into existing data. The second was to gather his own.

Stolp knew there was a high incidence of cancer so he pored over numbers collected by the California Health Department. They showed that Tuolumne had the state’s highest rate of breast cancer, was near the top of the list in lung and bronchus cancers and had higher than average rates of melanoma, bladder and prostate cancer.

Read the full article.

Originally published by Forbes


More Updates

Work With Us

You change the world. We do the rest. Explore fiscal sponsorship at PHI.

Bring Your Work to PHI

Support Us

Together, we can accelerate our response to public health’s most critical issues.

Donate

Find Employment

Begin your career at the Public Health Institute.

See Jobs

Kids in a school playground

Close

Donate to PHI Today to Build a Healthier World for Tomorrow

The last few years have been immensely challenging for communities around the globe—in some cases, setting back public health gains by years or decades. But these last few years have also demonstrated what works: Sustained investments in communities, health and equity, and policy change to support them. Now is the time to strengthen these successes, to ensure that no community falls behind.

Donate to PHI

Continue to PHI.org