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Portsmouth Health Department urges public‑health approach to violence; highlights teen outreach, hospital intervention
Summary
The Portsmouth Health Department presented community health findings tying social determinants to violence and recommended public‑health interventions including hospital‑based violence intervention and restarting a teen outreach program.
Portsmouth — The Portsmouth Health Department told the task force it is taking a public‑health approach to youth and community violence, emphasizing social determinants of health and collaborations across departments and community organizations.
Dwight Richardson, of the Portsmouth Health Department, described findings from the city’s most recent community health assessment (data through 2022) and said Portsmouth’s per‑capita rates for group A offenses among youth were consistently higher than other Hampton Roads localities. Richardson said the crude trend lines that dipped during 2018–2021 reflect pandemic disruptions to schooling and social life and cautioned that recent cycles could show increases now that regular activity has…
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