Public health includes health protection, such as water testing and preventive health programs such as screening and immunization. How important do you think public health programs are for the people of Illinois?
Over 95 percent of respondents said public health services are important or very important for Illinois.
How good a job do you think we are doing in Illinois...?
The highest marks in the Public Health area are for making sure children receive their immunizations, a service which over three-fourth of the respondents gave a good or excellent rating. Promoting infant health through prenatal care, supplementary food and well-baby care received slightly lower ratings, with still over three-fourths of the people giving a good or excellent rating. Ratings dropped below half good or excellent for health education and health promotion for teens. Helping people overcome an alchohol or substance abuse problem ranked lowest, with 43.3 percent giving their State a good or excellent rating.
The Summary Performance Evaluation for public health was calculated as an average of the responses to the questions above. Just over 79 percent of respondents give public health services a medium-high or high ratings.
SOURCE: State of Illinois 1999 Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report, Extract of the Public Accountability Report
State of Illinois Comptroller Daniel W. Hynes.
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