Tag: poll
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Poll shows Kentucky health-care providers often fail to discuss HIV testing with patients
A new poll suggests that most Kentucky health-care providers follow guidelines for discussing HIV screening with their patients, despite the the importance of early treatment to prevent its progression to...
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Kentucky’s well-being ranks next to last, just above West Virginia
Kentucky ranks next to last in the annual Gallup-Healthways Well-Being index, just ahead of West Virginia. The Bluegrass State ranked last in the index’s Healthy Behaviors category, which measures the...
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Survey suggests Great Recession has harmed the health of Kentuckians
A recent poll shows continuation of a trend threatening Kentucky’s overall health: as the number of Kentuckians living in poverty goes up, the percentage of adults who report their health...
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Poll finds four out of five Kentuckians are comfortable seeing a nurse practitioner or physician assistant for routine care
New poll figures indicate the majority of Kentuckians are comfortable seeing a nurse practitioner, physician assistant or mid-level clinician for their routine care, especially if they have been treated by...
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28% of Ky. adults 18-64 say they lack health coverage; 41% lacked it sometime in last year; employer coverage down since ’08
Nearly three in 10 working-age adults in Kentucky are not covered by any form of health insurance, and the number who get health insurance from their employer, or their spouse’s...
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Ky. parents strongly favor increasing school dropout age, a step that could make future high-school students healthier
A statewide poll has found that Kentucky parents overwhelmingly favor increasing the state’s school dropout age, and doing so might help future high-school students’ health, according to the Foundation for a...
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Poll shows registered voters in Ky. favor expanding Medicaid
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News A statewide poll last month found that most registered voters in Kentucky, when presented with specific facts and options, generally favored expansion...
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Kentuckians think their children’s generation will be less healthy and worse off economically than current working-age generation
Forty percent of Kentucky adults think their children’s generation will be less healthy than the current generation of working-age Kentuckians, and 61 percent think the newer generation will be worse...
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Poll shows depth of prescription drug abuse in Kentucky
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News One-third of Kentucky adults have friends or relatives who have experienced problems from abusing prescription pain relievers, and 8 percent have...
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3 in 5 Kentucky adults favor a statewide smoking ban, according to an independent poll that may have oversampled smokers
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentuckians now favor a statewide smoking ban by a margin of 3 to 2, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll conducted last...