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Devon’s 12 challenges:
1. Growing and ageing population
2. Climate change
3. Complex patterns of urban, rural and coastal deprivation
4. Housing quality and affordability
5. Cost of living crisis
6. Access to services
7. Poor health outcomes caused by modifiable behaviours
8. Earlier onset of helath problems in more deprived areas
9. Unpaid care and associated health outcomes
10. Changing patterns of infectious diseases
11. Poor mental health and wellbeing, social isolation and loneliness
12. Pressure on health and care services