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Columbus County Health Department unveils 2025-2029 strategic plan; names obesity, substance use and lung cancer as top priorities
Summary
At the Dec. 2 Columbus County Board of Commissioners meeting, health department staff presented the 2023 community health assessment and a strategic plan for 2025'2029 that identifies obesity, substance use and lung cancer as primary priorities and proposes workforce development, Narcan access and school-based vaping prevention programs.
The Columbus County Health Department presented its 2023 community health assessment and a new strategic plan for 2025 through 2029 during the Board of Commissioners meeting on Dec. 2.
Health department staff said the assessment, completed every four years with citizen input and secondary data sources, shows persistent challenges: poverty, a local life expectancy roughly six years shorter than the state average, limited access to specialty care, high adult obesity rates, elevated overdose death rates and a higher smoking prevalence (23%) than the state average. The department identified…
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