![]() He said the plan will be a multipronged collaboration with partners across the community in areas like education, transportation and criminal justice. “As we’re looking at this from a health care perspective, we’re taking this in manageable bites,” Cerise said during the talk. The five ZIP codes identified in the assessment as having the most significant health disparities are: 75210, 75215, 75216, 7521. More than 300 health officials, Dallas County Commissioners, members of the board of managers for Parkland, plus other city officials, discussed solutions at a public event Thursday morning. “In many instances, your ZIP code is a better predictor of your mortality than your genetic code, and that certainly is what you see playing out." "The finding is undisputable,” Parkland president and CEO Fred Cerise said. Parkland Health and Hospital System and Dallas County Health and Human Services worked together on the report. ![]() Local officials released a plan to help address health disparities across Dallas County after a report published in October identified five ZIP codes in southern part of the county as the most unhealthy. ![]()
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