Running Head:

Demographic and
Population health

San Bernardino County Data

Alejandra Orta
Cal State University, San Bernardino

HSCI 301: Section 1

October 9, 2015
Professor Otiniano

1.

Running Head:
Demographic and
Population health

San Bernardino County like many other counties has a very diverse population with whites
alone making 77.3%, while black or African American make up 9.5%, American Indian and
Alaskan native are 2.0%, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific islanders alone 0.05%, Two more
races 3.4%, Hispanic or Latino 51.7%, and white alone, not Hispanic or Latino make up 30.6%.
While race and ethnicity are believed to be intertwined with each other there is a difference
between the use of both terms when it comes to identifying someone in such group.
Race is merely a social construct, it is a way society categorizes a person and it achieves
this through pointing the importance of a persons physical characteristics or attributes that
compose a person such as their genetics. Ethnicity on the other hand describes the socially
accepted categories such as language, religion, cultural heritage, and national characteristic that
individuals identify with each other. While culture is perceived to be something that is passed
from generation to generation and can be perceived to be anything from values to beliefs
anything that can generalize who we are.
The gender demographics shows that males are less likely to be household head with a
7.3% which is nearly doubled to that of female which is 16.4%. This is also true when it comes
to the marital status men are more likely to be single than women with a disadvantage of 6.3%
But when it comes to separated ,widowed, or divorce they are less likely to then compared to a
women.
Household family (families) was the majority when it came to the household types in San
Bernardino County with a reported 459,664 of households making it 76.1%. The potential health
outcomes due to this is if the households include extended family there could be greater risk for
the people living within the household such as exposures to second smoke handing as well as
greater exposures to diseases. But there also could be the advantage of being exposed to better
eating habits. Another fact about household type was the householder living alone was at 19.2%
almost the same percent as nonfamily household at a 23.9%. Which leaves a greater chance for
bad eating habits due to the lack of family support to better eating or better orientation to do so.
2.B

Running Head:
Demographic and
Population health

Chlamydia is the top disease reported in the county affecting mostly people around the age of 2024 years, while Hepatitis C is the second most common affecting the group age of 45-54 years.
The third most frequent disease reported was Gonorrhea affecting the group age of 20-24 years,
while HIV is the most common disease in San Bernardino County affecting a large age group of
20-34. While the fifth most common disease is Salmonellosis affecting the age group of 1-4.
a. The median Household income for San Bernardino County is $54,090 while the median
household income for California is $61,094. This information is provided by population
estimates, American community survey, census of population & housing, state & county housing
unit estimates, county business patterns, non employer statistics, economic census, survey of
business owners, building permits.
b. An interesting fact was that females are more likely to have health insurance than
males. Another fact was that males with a 486.2 are more likely to develop cancer than females
376.4. While most diabetes incidents happen more frequent in females 12.0 while the male
incident was 9.2.
c. The red indicators shown are for Adults with health insurance whose HP 2020 target is
100.0 and the current percent is 74.3. The second red target is for children with health insurance
whose current percent is 91.4, while the HP 2020 target is 100.0. The last red indicator is for the
people with a usual source of health care is 84.2 while the HP 2020 target is set for 95.
C.San Bernardino County ranks average to the rest of the counties however when it comes to the
amount of physicians for 100,000 it was one of the few counties that had the lowest percent. As
well as when it came to the clinic visits per 100 population it only had 8.5, it was one of the most
surprising findings due to the fact that San Bernardino is a large county.

Running Head:
Demographic and
Population health