Kevin Meconis, Epidemiologist in Riverside County, CA
Their main focus is in chronic diseases such as heart
disease, lung cancer, and asthma. Food poisoning is also very important to them
but the volume of cases is much higher with chronic diseases compared to
infectious. They are really trying to promote nutrition, physical activity, and
non-smoking in order to prevent chronic disease because it is much easier to
prevent a chronic disease than try to reverse it, while an infectious disease
is usually treatable and more easily reversed. Also they are focusing on improving
air quality by trying to push alternative methods of transportation because the
smog is getting bad in the county. Some examples are that they are trying to
get more bike lanes and in the city of Norco, there are actually lanes on the
side walk for riding your horse. They are also promoting the wearing of proper
protective equipment when using these alternate methods. That was all Kevin
could really offer me…
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