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FROM: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Costa=' s l
DATE: November 30, 1992 County'� =__:: �_
SUBJECT: STATUS OF BAY AREA CANCER COALITION PLANNING FOR THE THIRD
CANCER SUMMIT
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1 . Endorse the proposed Third Bay Area Cancer Summit, scheduled
for the fall of 1993, as outlined to our Committee by Dr.
Wendel Brunner in the attached report.
2 . Request the Bay Area Cancer Coalition to include in the
planning for the Third Bay Area Cancer Summit at least one
County Supervisor from each County in the Bay Area, requesting
that that Supervisor take the lead in involving other elected
officials from his or her County in the Summit and request
that the designated County Supervisors participate in a
significant way in the Summit, perhaps by serving on a panel
together, as was originally outlined in this Committee' s
report on this subject which the Board of Supervisors approved
on October 1, 1991 .
3 . Request the Public Health Director to follow up on the
feasibility of expanding the prospective study of the
incidence of cancer which this County has asked the National
Cancer Institute to fund, to include the Boston, Massachusetts
area and include former Speaker of the House of
Representatives Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill in the proposed study,
in view of his recent advocacy in support of more research
into the causes of and cures for cancer, as was originally
outlined in this Committee' s report on this subject which the
Board of Supervisors approved on October 1, 1991 .
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4 . Express the appreciation of the Board of Supervisors to the
members of the Tobacco Control Project who have been so
successful in getting a number of cities to enact total or
nearly total bans on the smoking of tobacco and tobacco
products in restaurants .
5 . Express the support of the Board of Supervisors for the
progress which is being made in the cities of Pleasant Hill
and Concord to enact total or nearly total bans on the smoking
of tobacco and tobacco products in restaurants within those
cities .
6 . Remove this item as a referral to the 1992 Internal Operations
Committee and instead refer it to the 1993 Internal Operations
Committee for continuing oversight.
BACKGROUND:
Our Committee has been following the progress being made in
heightening the awareness of public officials, the general public
and public health departments throughout the Bay Area to the need
to make chronic diseases in general, and cancer in particular, a
key issue and a high priority for public health agencies .
Attached is the latest of these reports, outlining the progress
which has been made in moving forward with the implementation of a
$5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study means
of informing the public on the need for additional screening for
breast and cervical cancer, and methods for detecting and treating
these cancers .
Planning is also moving forward for the Third Bay Area Cancer
Summit, which is now being scheduled for the fall of 1993 .
Our Committee believes that additional work needs to be done on one
of the original purposes of the Cancer Summits, namely to
institutionalize in policy-makers in all of the Bay Area counties
the need to become involved in public health issues, and
particularly issues related to cancer prevention, detection and
treatment and those actions which local elected officials can take
to further those efforts.
We also want Public Health to follow up on a prior referral from
the Board of Supervisors to the effect that the National Cancer
Institute be approached about the possibility of funding a joint
prospective study of the incidence of cancer in the Bay Area as
well as in the Boston area. The Boston area is suggested because
of the interest on the part of the former Speaker of the House and
the possibility that he could exert some influence to get the study
funded.
We are also pleased with the progress which has been made by cities
in this County to enact total or partial bans on smoking within
restaurants in the city. Pleasant Hill is scheduled to take up the
subject on December 7, 1992 and the City of Concord seems to be
moving in the direction of a similar ban.
The above recommendations reflect our interest in these subjects
and our desire that a Committee of the Board of Supervisors
continue to provide oversight to this most important subject.
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TO: INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
Supervisor Robert I . Schroder, District 3
Supervisor Sunne Wright McPeak, District 4
FROM: Wendel Brunner,
Assistant Health Services Director for Public Health
DATE: November 23, 1992
SUBJECT: BAY AREA CANCER COALITION PLANNING FOR THIRD CANCER
SUMMIT
The Public and Environmental Health Advisory Board (PEHAB) has
identified chronic disease prevention as a key issue for public
health in Contra Costa. Chronic disease, including cancer,
cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease now account for 78%
of all deaths in the county, many of them premature and
preventable. As PEHAB has pointed out in their report, local
health departments need to increase their emphasis on chronic
disease as a public health issue. The PEHAB report also emphasizes
the demographic and socioeconomic trends in the community and how
they influence health status and the impact of chronic disease.
These trends cross county boundaries making a regional approach to
cancer control and prevention particularly important.
The goal of the Bay Area Cancer Coalition's Third Cancer Summit is
to place cancer prevention on the agenda of Bay Area health
departments and Bay Area communities . The target groups for
participation in the Cancer Summit are:
• Local health departments, particularly individuals and
projects within local health departments that are interested
in chronic disease and cancer prevention. One of the goals of
the conference is to build constituencies within local health .
departments to promote cancer prevention as a health
department priority.
• Ethnic communities . Many cancers take a disproportionate toll
on minority communities . The incidence of breast cancer, for
example, is higher among White women, but the mortality is
greater among African American women, largely because of later
diagnosis and treatment. BACC intends to involve in this
Summit the multi-ethnic networks that have developed around
the regional tobacco prevention efforts .
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• State Health Department. We are involving the Chronic Disease
Prevention Branch of DOHS and the Public Health leadership of
the Department in this Summit. One goal is to facilitate the
interaction of the State Health Department's Chronic Disease
Prevention Program with local health departments, and
encourage DOHS to effectively promote cancer prevention as a
local public health issue.
• Press and other media. The media can play an important role
in raising the awareness of the community about the
possibilities of cancer prevention. Media attention to an
issue helps raise its priority in local health departments and
the community.
• State and local health officials and policy makers .
• Community cancer prevention programs, such as local tobacco
control coalitions and the Breast and Cervical Cancer
Intervention Study Project in Richmond.
All the agencies involved in the Bay Area Cancer Coalition have
undergone the same budget cuts we have experienced in Contra Costa
County, and as a result additional responsibilities have been
placed on the remaining agency staff . In order to implement the
Cancer Summit, BACC is seeking funding for that project from the
National Cancer Institute.
The regional approach involving ethnic communities that cross
county boundaries, regional media market, and the Bay Area
collaboration of local health departments building on the
experience initiated by BACC with regional tobacco prevention
collaboration makes this project quite fundable. The Northern
California Cancer Center is taking the lead in pursuing funding
options for this project. The original target of Spring of 1993
has been postponed; we are now focusing efforts on a Fall
conference.
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cc: Mark Finucane, Health Services Director