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CHARTS Community Spotlight Big Bend Better Living Collaborates to Improve Health in the Florida Panhandle

Big Bend Better Living is a regional healthy eating, active living campaign formed out of a collaboration between eight North Florida County Health Departments: Gulf, Franklin, Wakulla, Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson, Madison, and Taylor. As staff from each county health department developed their community health assessments, they discovered similarities regarding obesity-related illness and lack of exercise and healthy eating. They realized that if they collaborated to educate the populations they serve about these health issues they would be more efficient and effective. This led to the development of the website bigbendbetterliving.org, public service announcements, and educational brochures and posters for community outreach. Read more

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CHARTS Quick Facts

  • There were 212,954 births and 175,849 deaths among Florida residents in 2012
  • A Florida resident born in 2012 is expected to live 79.3 years
  • Florida’s infant mortality rate decreased from 6.4 in 2011 to 6.0 in 2012 per 1,000 live births
  • The infant mortality rate is now at an all-time low in Florida
  • Cancer was the leading cause of death in Florida in 2012

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