Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Local collaborations help tackle Ky.’s health problems, and can be guided by hospitals’ and health departments’ needs assessments
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Collaborations in individual communities can play a critical role when it comes to improving Kentucky’s poor health outcomes, largely because those outcomes are grounded...
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Rural Ky. needs more community health workers and medical-school residents, legislators and UK hospital executive say
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Improving health care and health in rural Kentucky will take more people in the health-care workforce, specifically at the top and bottom of the...
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At last regular Covid-19 press briefing, Beshear says crisis is over but pandemic is not; rescinds most restrictions, reflects on fight
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In his last regular Covid-19 press conference, Gov. Andy Beshear lifted the statewide mask mandate for most settings, ended capacity limits for businesses and...
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‘Only in our anti-truth hellscape could Dr. Anthony Fauci become a super-villain,’ says headline on Washington Post column
By Margaret Sullivan The Washington Post Right-wing commentators are pretending that thousands of newly released emails from Dr. Anthony S. Fauci represent some kind of smoking gun against the government’s...
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Rural and conservative congressional districts, in Kentucky and the nation as a whole, have lower coronavirus vaccination rates
Map from Harvard University study; click here for the interactive version. —– More conservative and more rural Americans – and Kentuckians – are more likely to remain unvaccinated against the coronavirus, and the divide...
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End of Beshear’s Covid-19 press briefings Friday will signal, if not the end of the pandemic, the turning of a page and moving on
Beshear at a briefing the first week of the pandemic, with interpreter Virginia Moore at left and Health Commissioner Steven Stack at right. (Photo by Michael Clevenger, Louisville Courier Journal) —–...
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Spencer County residents with ‘country spirit’ cite mistrust of government, side effects, perceived links to abortion as reasons they’re not vaccinated
Spencer County stands out in an adapted screenshot of the Dept. for Public Health interactive map. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News TAYLORSVILLE, Ky. – In 21 of Kentucky’s 120 counties...
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Beshear starts incentives to get people vaccinated, including 15 scholarships for students 12-17 and three $1 million drawings
Beshear announces incentives (Photo by Melissa Patrick) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As coronavirus vaccination rates in Kentucky keep slowing, Gov. Andy Beshear has announced new lottery-style incentives: $1...
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Audit of death certificates ends, adds 260 Covid-19 fatalities; new virus cases and test rates are still declining; so are vaccinations
For the first time in many months, no counties are in red. (Ky. Health Dept. map, relabeled by Ky. Health News) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear...
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Research finds declines in drug-overdose death rates in eight Eastern Kentucky counties and explores the many reasons for it
From “Understanding Declining Rates of Drug Overdose Mortality in Eastern Ky.;” click it to enlarge —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A decline in drug-overdose deaths in several Eastern...