Tag: life expectancy
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Wellness coalition in Perry County, where life expectancy is state’s lowest, gets funding from Foundation for a Healthy Ky.
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has funded the Perry County Wellness Coalition’s three-year plan to encourage fitness and better nutrition in school-age children, “Kids on the Move!” The wellness...
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Kentucky’s life expectancy, a basic measure of health status, is 76; it fluctuates as many as 9 years from county to county
By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News A life lived in Kentucky is expected to vary up to nine years in length depending on the county in which it’s spent. Life...
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Women in small-town America aren’t living as long as before; alcohol, drugs, food, housing, jobs, education, pollution to blame
By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service Those of us who grew up in small rural communities in the 1950s and ’60s expected to have longer life spans than our...
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Health reform should make Medicaid and Medicare more interested in preventing chronic diseases in young, expert says
Dr. Wayne Myers While some rural areas may not have enough doctors (or those who accept Medicaid patients) to treat new patients generated by federal health reform, the key to...