Robeson County Health Rankings

Robeson County is poorly ranked. It is 98 out of all the Couts in North Carolina. A thing that shocked me was the sexually transmitted disease ranking. The Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) rate is measured as chlamydia incidence per 100,000 population. Chlamydia is often caused by unsafe sex. Chlamydia is the most common bacterial STI in North America and is one of the major causes of tubal infertility, ectopic pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease, and chronic pelvic pain. STIs in general are associated with a significantly increased risk of morbidity and mortality, including increased risk of cervical cancer, involuntary infertility, and premature death. However, increases in reported chlamydia infections may reflect the expansion of chlamydia screening, use of increasingly sensitive diagnostic tests, an increased emphasis on case reporting from providers and laboratories, improvements in the information systems for reporting, as well as true increases in disease.

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