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Community Health Assessment
for Oswego County
The Oswego County Health Department has released a summary of the Community Health Assessment 2014-2017. The assessment identifies the county's greatest health risks and challenges, compared to surrounding counties and the NYS average. Click here for the executive summary.
Highlights include the following challenges:
- High overweight and obesity rate among adults and school children
- High smoking rate, and high alcohol and drug abuse among adults
- High disease burden and life lost from cancer, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, and diabetes
- High unintentional pregnancy rate and reduced percentage of pregnant women seeking early prenatal care
- High rate of drug abuse
- High suicide death rate
- Increased incidence of STDs
- Constant threat from mosquito-borne diseases and increased incidence of tick-borne diseases
- Health disparities are associated with socioeconomic differences
- Unfunded or underfunded federal and state mandates drain the County’s resources for improvement of local community health
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