City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0144R

• File #: 06-0144R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Diabetes in Baltimore City
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 2/27/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/5/2007
• Title: Informational Hearing - Diabetes in Baltimore City FOR the purpose of requesting that the Commissioner of Health brief the Council on the current prevalence of Diabetes in Baltimore City and what Health Department resources are being utilized to help inform citizens about the characteristics of the illness, in order to help combat this terrible and debilitating disease.
• Sponsors: Robert Curran, President Young, Kenneth Harris, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Keiffer Mitchell, James B. Kraft, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Rochelle Spector, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, Agnes Welch, Paula Johnson Branch, President Dixon
• Indexes: Diabetes, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/23/2007	0	The City Council	Reassigned
3/2/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/27/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
2/27/2006	0	City Council

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Curran


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Informational Hearing - Diabetes in Baltimore City

FOR the purpose of requesting that the Commissioner of Health brief the Council on the current prevalence of Diabetes in Baltimore City and what Health Department resources are being utilized to help inform citizens about the characteristics of the illness, in order to help combat this terrible and debilitating disease.
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Diabetes is a disease in which the body either does not produce enough insulin or doesn't properly use the insulin that the body makes. Insulin is a hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy needed by the body. Approximately 17 million people in the in the United States have diabetes. An estimated 382,000 people in Maryland have diabetes. Half of these people have been diagnosed, but the other half have not and are unaware that they have the disease. An additional 1,326,032 Marylanders are at risk of developing diabetes due to the risk factors of age, obesity, and sedentary life style. Diabetes and diabetes-related illness cause 74,000 hospitalizations each year. Of these, 1,620 are for amputations, with an average length 16.7-days hospital stay at an average cost of $17,888 per hospitalization, and 4,670 are for diabetes-related kidney disease, with an average length 9-days hospital stay at an average...