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Roanoke health director warns of persistent premature death gap, spotlights TB, STIs and local interventions
Summary
Dr. Cynthia Morrow, health director for the Roanoke City and Alleghany Health Districts, told council that Roanoke City’s premature‑death rate lags state and national benchmarks and highlighted active tuberculosis cases, rising sexually transmitted infections and local programs to expand clinical services and prevention.
Dr. Cynthia Morrow, health director for the Roanoke City and Alleghany Health Districts, briefed the Roanoke City Council on the locality’s health benchmarks, saying Roanoke fares worse than Virginia and the U.S. on premature deaths and several key health measures.
"Our job in public health is to assess our community, to develop policies and programs to serve our community, and to assure that those programs and policies are impacting positively the community's health," Morrow said as she opened her presentation, which drew from the County Health Rankings.
Morrow identified heart disease and cancer as leading causes of premature death and cautioned that COVID‑era data require…
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