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Rural Americans At Higher Risk From Five Leading Causes of Death: CDC (cbsnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Americans living in rural areas are more likely to die from five leading causes of death than people living in urban areas, according to a new government report. Many of these deaths are preventable, officials say, with causes including heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, stroke, and chronic lower respiratory disease. Approximately 46 million Americans -- about 15 percent of the U.S. population -- currently live in rural areas. According to the CDC report, several demographic, environmental, economic, and social factors might put rural residents at higher risk of death from these conditions. Rural residents in the U.S., for example, tend to be older and sicker than their urban counterparts, and have higher rates of cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, and obesity. People living in rural areas also report less leisure-time physical activity and lower seatbelt use than their those living in urban areas and have higher rates of poverty, less access to health care, and are less likely to have health insurance. Specifically, the report found that in 2014, deaths among rural Americans included: 25,000 from heart disease; 19,000 from cancer; 12,000 from unintentional injuries; 11,000 from chronic lower respiratory disease; 4,000 from stroke. The percentages of deaths that were potentially preventable were higher in rural areas than in urban areas, the authors report. For the study, the researchers analyzed numbers from a national database. The CDC suggests to help close the gap, health care providers in rural areas can: Screen patients for high blood pressure; Increase cancer prevention and early detection; Encourage physical activity and healthy eating; Promote smoking cessation; Promote motor vehicle safety; Engage in safer prescribing of opioids for pain.
Yeah, no. They voted to gut the nation's healthcare, imperfect as it was. They can ALL die this way. Mod me Flamebait, but you know fucking well I'm right.
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Bullshit. Obamacare wasn't an effective healthcare solution and everyone knows it. It was a massive corporate welfare program for the only industry that probably needs it less than oil. You can cry until you're blue in the face that the GOP cockblocked its true potential, but because a single-payer system never would've been a realistic option with the Democratic party controlled by worthless DINO neoliberal trash, this is all we ever truly had the ability to pass. And we shouldn't have, because it's garbage that hasn't fixed anything for anyone. It has been worse than doing nothing, and shitcanning it is one of Trump's only positive ideas.
What I don't like is you disingenuous shitrats practically burning half the country's population in effigy and then claiming they're cruel, bigoted warmongers.
We grow a lot of our own food
City folks steal a lot of their own food.
and have easy access to hunting.
City folks also do a lot of hunting . . . of each other. And you'll probably not want to eat what they bring back strapped to the hoods of their cars. No cute and cuddly Bambi stew. Instead you get Crip cocktail, creame of Blood soup and Traveling Vice Lord, lettuce and tomato sandwiches.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!