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entering the bloodstream. a gynecologists and obstetrician helped refugees and advocated for justice. he also petaried cambodian journalist in the 1984 film the killing field. number 8 abraham, an indian american physician for advocating for the importance of empathy in physician and patient relations. he worked with young aids patients at a time little could be done with them. number nine dr. paul was a chinese-american cardiologist and first asian president of the american heart association from 1972 and '73. a native of the bay area.
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>> you are on auto. >> i unmuted you >> now i have to go back to the pdf. specific island heritage make 26.3% of the healthcare work force in california. one in five across the united states i deputified as asian or pacific islander. 11 nurses across the country identify as asian and pacific islanders. january of 2020 the increase usage of anti-asian technology and red rick. this is related covid-19 as popetuated an anti-asian stigma in the increase of hate crimes. this is in pacific islander decent.
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the health commission approved the resolution 1-5 of individuals. they denounced racism and violence against the community in 2020. this remains much to be done to ensure asian americans and pacific islanders have access to resources and continue to participate in advance in the political landscape of the united states. whereas celebrating the pacific american heritage month that the people of the united states with a opportunity to recognize the achievement, contribution, and history of and to understand the challenges faced by asian americans and pacific islanders. so, the san francisco health commission recognizes the sigg any of dance of asian and
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pacific heritage month as an important time to celebrate the contributions of asian american and pacific islanders to the state oficallical california and city of san francisco. the health commission recognizes that asian american and pacific islander community enhance the rich diversity and straighten the city of san francisco. >> thank you commissioners for reading the resolution. before we move onto public comment and discussion among commissioners do we have a motion to approve the resolution. >> i move to approve. >> i second. >> we have a motion and
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second. secretary, any public comments. >> folks on the line to make public comment please race your hand. i'll read a statement before you speak. >> members can make a comment up to 3 minutes. this is designed to invite feedback to insievials there the ials -- indivie meeting. you cannot engage back and forthwith the commissioners note, each individual is allowed one opportunity and read statements from others. person on the line, i'll unmute you and put three minutes on the clock.
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caller us let us know you are there? >> hello. good afternoon commissioners. i'm angelica. happy asian and pacific islander heritage month. i was trying to call in for the public comment piece but my phone wasn't working. i hope it's okay i still make this comment. during this time. it's really great the commissioner acknowledge and highlighting the work of the asian and pacific islander community and contribution to health and well-being of the community. this leads to why i was calling. it was established in 2000 and it's a multistrategy organize. we work to improve lives on an
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individual level we engage in competent services. pacific engagement and advocate for the community. we created through the community health assessment report and how chronic effects philippine no o behavior. other environment factors. the partnership with professors. he is a professor in health education. the jung versety we hope will
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be able to have a opportunity to present to you the finding or report and share with you the needs and what came out of the over 300 people we helped across the city. thank you for having the resolution. it's ang important resolution. >> thank you for your comment. that's the only hand raised commissioners. >> all right, thank you secretary. do we have any comments on the resolution? secretary moore, let me know if someone has their hands raised. i do not see hands commissioners. >> i would like to take a moment. it's important we consider this resolution today to acknowledge the contribution of asian and pacific islanders
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to both our city and country. i'd like to acknowledge the community that dedicated themselves to protecting the health of all san franciscans against irmeasurable press sure and challenges within the last few years. we couldn't have gotten to where we are as a city or community in protecting our neighbors against covid-19 thank you for reminding us
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that norm severed under bill clinton and george w. bush. if we could take that last part where he's mentioned in the resolution to end it with severing as commerce secretary of president bill clinton and transportation secretary under george w. bush. if we could add that as well. i ask that both commissioners that made the motion and second it to accept that amendment. >> shall we get verification from the folks that gave a first and second on that. >> i accept it. i accept the amendment. >> okay, thank you. >> director of health dr. grant colfax. >> thank you commissioners. i would like to express appreciate for the commissioners passing the
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resolution. recognizing the incredible contribution of asian and pacific islanders in the city across the country and again, just to know the past two years the leadership across the asian and pacific islander community as we address covid-19. i'd like to thank the dph team asian and pacific islanders and staff that worked so hard on the covid-19 issue. again, appreciate for the commission for passing the resolution. >> thank you. >> thank you director colfax. i believe secretary wanted to go to a vote. [roll call]
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>> the item passes. thank you. >> thanks to all. moving to the next item. it's the resolution making findings to make code section 54953e. this is the resolution we have considered monthly to continue to conduct meetings either virtually or hybrid manor. i'll hand it other to sectorry morewitz. >> it just rolls off the tongue; we have done it a few times. >> i'll move it. >> i second it. >> item 7. press star 3. i'll give it 30 seconds. star 3. >> just to clarify, this
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resolution, you are giving authority to hold a hybrid meeting for the next month. all right, no public comment we can go to a vote. [roll call] next item for discussion is the vision zero sf update. we have dr. sethpardo. >> could you hold for a second. could you pull-up the presentation. >> welcome dr. pardo. >> sorry for the pause. >> alyssa, can you share your screen, please.
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>> can you hair hear me? how about we switch. thank you for your patients. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> thank you for having me. i present the update for you all. i'm dr. seth pardo. i'm with the department of public health. san francisco adopted vision zero in 2014 thank you. across the u.s. cities are seeing continued challenges and get to zero.
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priority. they prioritize safety investments in the community of the most disproportional impacted by death and injury. speed is a fundamental predictor of crash survivor as they age the fatal ability. vision zero prioritizes the design to anticipator roars and have safer transportation on the city streets. next slide, please. the slide summarizes the big picture trends we see locally common sense the faster the car is going the more injury potential. about 20% of all severe and fatal injury crashes since 2014 are due to excessive
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speeds. a third of all severe and fatal crashes since 2014 are people not following the law if we look at the injury trend dating back to 2015 when the city implemented triage guidelines to san francisco general hospital between 2015 and 2018 you will see they remain flat and dipped for critical injuries pretty flat. next slide, please. severe injury trend by mode
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between 2017 to 2019 compared to the year covid-19 started in 2020 we have a 5% decrease among pedestrians. going from 32% to 27% in 2020. we had a 3% decrease in car and vehicle related injuries and we saw slight up ticks in transportation related. up 5% for injuries and up 1% for milks. stay on this for a moment, please this shows san francisco traffic deaths. the box indicates when vision zero was adopted for the next few years it's pretty confident. there is a dip there.
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increase again in 2019 and dipped again in 2021. in 2020 didn't youring the pandemic despite less people driving on the roadways people were driving faster. they weren't experiencing traffic. speeds could result in more severe crashes with a high likelihood of fatality. with other reports san francisco by 2040 the population is aging and they are more severe injury in the state. about 15th of the residents are seniors and by 2040 we expect that to forecast the growth of 137%. people experiencing homelessness have high exposure to risk factors. we saw a 15% increase combined
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with other limitations next slide, please. what you ski on the slide, generally a description here. when we look at fatality trend by mode in the three years before covid-19 compared to 2020 and 2021 we saw a decrease in pedestrian fatalities by 21%. we saw a 22% increase in car related fatalities and 2% decrease in fiscal related fatalities. i'm aware the commissioners have an interest in
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escooters. i can share we have a information on a ffmta dashboard. fsmta/reports/shared mobility. i'll provide the link to you. shows around 3.6 million trips. for shared mobility. we didn't have it for privately owned bikes and scooters biking has increased since 2005. approximately tripling sharing around 4%. it's pretty flat between 2017 and 2019. when we lookat the data we
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start tracking in 2018 we had seven severe injuries. two were critical. in 2020 we had five that were critical. we know from some reports we are tracking people are not wearing helmets. half of the injuries, 22% of the 44% were not wearing helmets. okay, next slide, please. >> the image of current high injury network. we work closely with city and agency partners and compiling the data. we expect to have a a look at the update. what we see here is that high henri high injury cos
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are over represented in communities of color. 75% of all injuries occur on 13% of the street. despite 31%over the streets being in the community of concern. low income communities and community of colure. people who rely on walking as transit. we find that 50% of the high injury network is in the same community. we are analyzing the latest trends to preform a high injury network. 48% of fatalities or pedestrians. 22% of crash fatalities are seniors age 65 plus. despite representing 18% of the city's demographic. cyclist and motorcyclist represent 7% of fatalities.
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we have a fatality report due later this month to the mayor's office. as i mention bed before the top vehicle factors to people walking include the driver failing to yield and unsafe speed. not abiding by the law. next slide, please. majority of traffic deaths are high injury net york we find that black and african-american individuals are disproportionnally impacted. we aim to take ang equity focus in everything we do. in regard to vision zero this deepened our community
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engagement. the action item for that moment. this is along the high injury network. yeah, we are drafting and advocating for policies. you center the policies to left them up more if they are disproportionally impacted. we take a data driven approach. it's a home for vision zero. we hope to leverage our injury surveillance system which i'll speak about it there a few slides. we will pull it together where data is available to ensure our information is as comprehensive as possible and improvements make a difference. next slide, please. okay, some of those highlights i mentioned are safe streets
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for seniors. this is an education program and in the current fiscal year we are funding six grantees. two are city wide. the grantees are walk san francisco foundation. senior and disability action. chinatown community development center. curry senior center. as far as policy considerations, next slide, please. the percentage on the slide across the different prioritization. based on national data. if we adopt the san francisco return in terms of the national data. this is how they would breakdown locally and form by the national policy.
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it's clear getting to zero will require a major shift in policy and resources. major straight redesign is one part. we need authority for tools and current proposals are speed cameras and lowering speed limits. this will give us a closer look at equity impacts. moving towards active shared transportation modes and using tools like pricing. if you have a question about pricing jamie is here with me and he can speak to that if a driver is not paying attention. some of the policy advocacy suggestions include housing density especially affordable housing for
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