Chronic diseases, which are preventable, remain the top health risk for people in Dallas County. Parkland Health and Dallas County Health and Human Services released the 2022 community health needs assessment. NBC 5’s Sophia Beausoleil explains.
"The chronic diseases, heart diseases, cancer are still the leading killers and something we need to work all together to address these issues. As pointed out, clinical services are only about 20% of health, but it's these other factors too, like for heart disease having access to healthy foods, being able to get physical activity in lighted safe areas as part of your day-to-day life," said Huang highlighting that a lot of external factors contribute to the health issues.
He said many of the patients he treats happen to be Hispanic and work blue collared jobs. Obesity, lack of access to care, stress, and lack of fresh food are also contributing factors to chronic diseases Bhongir explained. During Tuesday's presentation, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price listened to the information and wasn't surprised.
"The problem is we still have a number of issues that impact the delivery. Nobody talked about transportation deprivation, 40% of my district is transportation deprived, so access is still an issue," He said."When I talk about food deserts, broadband deserts, all the deserts we still harbor all of them and again, a 23-year difference of life between South of I-30 and North of I-30.
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