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Live Healthy Spartanburg presents 2024 health needs assessment, cites 17-year life-expectancy gap
Summary
Jalisa Jordan of Live Healthy Spartanburg presented the coalition's 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment, highlighting a 17-year life-expectancy gap across neighborhoods, roughly 40,000 uninsured residents, rising overdose deaths and priority areas for county-city collaboration; the full report is due early next year.
Jalisa Jordan, coalition manager for Live Healthy Spartanburg, told the city council on Nov. 10 that the coalition's 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment found striking disparities in health across Spartanburg County, including what Jordan described as "a 17 year life expectancy gap" between nearby neighborhoods.
The assessment, produced every three years, combines surveys and community conversations with public data. Jordan said about 40,000 county residents lack health insurance and that roughly 35 percent of adults meet the assessment's criteria for obesity. Jordan…
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