Tag: poll
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Poll finds contrasting views of Obamacare and Kynect
Most registered voters in Kentucky have an unfavorable view of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act when it is called Obamacare, but a plurality think favorably of Kynect, the...
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Less than 60% of Kentuckians say they visited a dentist in the past year, ranking the state 43rd in the nation
Kentucky ranked 43rd among the 50 states in percentage of people who told pollsters that they had visited a dentist in the past 12 months. The rankings in the annual...
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Kentucky ranks 49th in well-being survey, and Eastern Kentucky’s congressional district ranks last in the nation
Kentucky ranked 49th in the nation in a survey that measures perception of well-being, ranking higher than West Virginia and lower than Mississippi, and its 5th Congressional District ranked dead...
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One of every three Kentucky adults didn’t see a dentist last year; key factors are overall health, insurance and income
More than a third of Kentucky adults say they didn’t go to a dentist last year, and one in six said they hadn’t in five years or more, according to...
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Poll: Kentuckians who report excellent or very good sidewalks and road shoulders are more likely to be physically active
Kentucky adults who ranked their neighborhood sidewalks and road shoulders as excellent or very good are more likely to be physically active, but only 26 percent of Kentuckians rank them...
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Poll finds 52% of Ky. adults favor legalizing medical marijuana
A slight majority of Kentuckians favor allowing the use of medical marijuana in Kentucky, according to the latest Bluegrass Poll by SurveyUSA for four Kentucky news media outlets. The poll...
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Poll indicates Northern Kentucky is having a heroin epidemic
A poll indicates that Northern Kentucky is the hotbed for heroin use in the state, which has increased since the state legislature cracked down on abuse of prescription painkillers. The...
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Poll shows about 63% of Jessamine County residents support a statewide smoking ban
A recent poll facilitated by Asbury University‘s Psychology Department for the Jessamine County Health Department showed that about 63 percent of the county’s residents endorse a statewide law banning smoking...
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Obamacare in Ky.: Those who say they have enough info on how it affects them favor it; those who lack info say they don’t favor it
Kentuckians’ support of the federal health-reform law remains low, with only 30 percent saying they view it favorably and 48 percent unfavorably, but 57 percent said they didn’t have enough...
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Poll finds that 79 percent of Kentuckians, including 60 percent of Republicans, support Beshear’s expansion of Medicaid
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentuckians strongly support Gov. Steve Beshear’s decision to make hundreds of thousands more of them eligible for Medicaid under the federal...