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Burke County presents 2025 Community Health Assessment highlighting housing, substance use and mental‑health priorities
Summary
Public health educator Miranda Smith presented the 2025 Community Health Assessment (n=492 survey respondents), identifying top priorities: affordable housing and homelessness, substance‑use disorder, and mental health; the county will develop a 2026 Community Health Improvement Plan and a 2027 State of County Health report.
Miranda Smith, Burke County public health educator, briefed commissioners Nov. 17 on the completed 2025 Community Health Assessment (CHA), a three‑year cycle report that uses primary survey data and secondary sources to set local health priorities.
Smith said the county collected primary data from April–June 2024, with 492 resident survey responses (one of the larger samples…
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