Tag: poverty
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Busy Woodford County girl is one of 20 youth ambassadors in national campaign against childhood obesity
Genna Ringler of Woodford County has been named to the youth advisory board of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a national anti-childhood obesity group, John McGary reports for The...
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‘Hard times’ help 13 more schools in Paducah area join about 20 in federal program that gives free meals to all students
Thirteen more schools in the Paducah area will offer free breakfasts and lunches to all students under a provision of the federal school-lunch program, joining about 20 others in the...
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Schools keep adjusting to national nutrition guidelines
Paducah-area school districts “continue to adjust school meals to ensure students are fed complete, healthy meals every day,” Kathleen Fox reports for The Paducah Sun. The revised National School Lunch...
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Kentucky leads nation in percentage of children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder
Kentucky leads the nation in the percentage of children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder, according to the latest available data, which “showed that ADHD levels have...
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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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In Floyd County, opinions about health care reform depend on whom you ask, and in some cases they are surprising
At the Eula Hall Health Center in Grethel, nurse Stephanie Clark takes vitals of Mary Murphy, 54, whose leg blood clot wasn’t treated for 15 years because she couldn’t afford...
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Republicans wait for elections and chance to roll back Medicaid expansion; few Kentucky Democrats defend Obamacare
Though thousands of their constituents have benefited from it, Republican state legislators say they are planning to roll back Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s expansion of Medicaid under the Patient Protection...
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Obamacare raised woman’s premium 74% but she’s thankful it has extended health care to those who didn’t have it
“Beneath the loud debate” about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it is “quietly starting to change the health care landscape,” writes Abby Goodnough of The New York Times,...
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Smoking persists or even increases in poor, rural, working-class counties; New York Times cites Clay County as an example
Clay County has a dubious distinction. It has the highest rate of smoking for any U.S. county with a population under 15,000. Researchers at the University of Washington pointed that out,...
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Humana Inc. bus travels the rural roads of Mississippi, looking to enroll people in Obamacare by March 31 deadline
Insurance providers have been scared off by Mississippi, one of the poorest and unhealthiest states in the country. Only nine percent of eligible residents have signed up for insurance under...