By Lee Shearer
Athens Banner-Herald
November 04, 2010
Workers in the state Division of Public Health will focus on prevention and education to cure the state's serious public health problems, the new director of the state Division of Public Health said Wednesday.
"Behaviors are absolutely critical to our success," said Rony Francois, named in January to head the state agency.
Georgia faces serious problems with high teen pregnancy rates, infant mortality, smoking-related disease and high childhood obesity rates, Francois said in a presentation at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
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