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Aragorn
13th January 2017, 07:30
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Source: CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rural-americans-at-higher-risk-of-five-leading-causes-of-death/)



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 (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sugar-industry-scientific-heart-research-that-made-fat-look-bad/), cancer, unintentional injuries, stroke (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lower-stroke-risk-sleep-exercise/), and chronic lower respiratory disease.

“This new study shows there is a striking gap in health between rural and urban Americans,” said CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden, said in a statement. “To close this gap, we are working to better understand and address the health threats that put rural Americans at increased risk of early death.”

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 (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/smoking-cigarettes-occasionally-deadly-lung-cancer/), high blood pressure, and obesity (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obesity-could-take-this-many-years-off-your-life/).

People living in rural areas also report less leisure-time physical activity and lower seat belt 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 is partnering with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), on a series to help promote the findings and make recommendations to rural communities.

“We have seen increasing rural-urban disparities in life expectancy and mortality emerge in the past few years. CDC’s focus on these critical rural health issues comes at an important time,” said HRSA Acting Administrator Jim Macrae.

The study also found that unintentional injury deaths were about 50 percent higher in rural areas, partly because of greater risk of death from car crashes and opioid overdoses (http://www.cbsnews.com/opioid-epidemic/).

The authors note that not all deaths are preventable in rural areas and residents may be at greater risk due to longer travel distances to specialty and emergency care or exposures to specific environmental hazards.

The CDC suggests to help close the gap, health care providers in rural areas can:


Screen patients for high blood pressure -- a leading risk factor for heart disease and stroke -- and make control a quality improvement goal.


Increase cancer prevention and early detection. Rural health care providers should participate in the state-level comprehensive control programs, which focus on cancer prevention, education, screening, access to care, support for cancer survivors, and overall good health.


Encourage physical activity and healthy eating to reduce obesity, which has been linked to a variety of serious chronic illnesses, including diabetes (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sugar-can-too-much-cause-type-2-diabetes/), heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.


Promote smoking cessation. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States and is the most significant risk factor for chronic lower respiratory disease.


Promote motor vehicle safety. Rural health care providers should encourage patients to always wear a seat belt and counsel parents and child care providers to use age- and size-appropriate car seats, booster seats, and seat belts on every trip.


Engage in safer prescribing of opioids for pain. Health care providers should follow the CDC guideline (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/rr/rr6501e1.htm) when prescribing opioids for chronic pain and educate patients on the risks and benefits of opioids and using nonpharmacologic therapies to provide greater benefit.



Source: CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rural-americans-at-higher-risk-of-five-leading-causes-of-death/)

Gio
13th January 2017, 08:19
Question to Aragorn ...

Just wondering what country do you live in, and perhaps you could share
share some similar news (about your homeland) in those regards with the forum?

Just saying ... wink/wink

Gio
13th January 2017, 08:27
Please note, the reason why i ask you such, is because i once asked
Monsieur Hervé (at PA) who hails fro the north of France, why he
seldom posted news items in regards to his homeland instead of
continuously posting stories about the U.S. ...
Of course (as usual) he choose not to respond.

PS ~ I like to read items that are usually unavailable to my sources
and to learn what's occurring in other parts of the world.

modwiz
13th January 2017, 08:30
I find it so odd that organizations part of a globalist depopulation agenda post this kind of information. Must be fake news trying to appear benevolent with their scientism reports/ human interest stories. Rural Americans are held in the same esteem as lab rats by the coastal populations that form the dominant culture and harbor the predators.

Gio
13th January 2017, 08:38
I find it so odd that organizations part of a globalist depopulation agenda post this kind of information. Must be fake news trying to appear benevolent with their scientism reports/ human interest stories. Rural Americans are held in the same esteem as lab rats by the coastal populations that form the dominant culture and harbor the predators.

http://www.gmo.news/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/09/Rats-Mice-Cage-Experiment-Lab.jpg

Yes indeed, but i like to see what's occurring to the other specimens in the differing global cages.

giggle :)

Aragorn
13th January 2017, 09:19
Question to Aragorn ...

Just wondering what country do you live in, and perhaps you could share
share some similiar news in those regards with the forum?

Just saying ... wink/wink


I was born, grew up, and have so far always resided in the Flanders, which is the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium, Western Europe. But on account of news, there isn't all that much of a comparable nature that I could post here, and especially not due to the fact that English is not an official language in Belgium. The three official languages of Belgium are (the Flemish dialect of) Dutch (55%), (the Walloon dialect of) French (40%) and German (5%). By consequence, nothing from the Belgian local news is ever published in English, unless it would be of importance at the international scale, in which case such news will also appear on the English-spoken websites of the usual suspects.

But that said, I don't really monitor the mainstream news. What I do however regularly monitor is Slashdot (https://slashdot.org), which is a US-hosted and primarily technically-oriented news site — they also have their own forum, but I rarely ever look at that. For most part, they are also very US-centric, although international news of a technical, environmental or scientific nature does of course find its way onto their site. So when I see something there that I believe to be of interest to the members of The One Truth, then I will check out the original article and then I'll post it here. ;)

Most of the local Belgian news deals with party-political bickering, political correctness, a bit of celebrity nonsense, and — in spite of my having indicated in Google News that I don't wish to see any of it — a surprising lot of sports stuff. Like in the USA, sports are a religion in and of themselves here, albeit that they're not the same kinds of sports as which are popular in the USA.

In Belgium, soccer — which is called "football" here in Europe — is the absolute king, closely followed by the (seasonally bound) bicycle races. Ever since the mid 1980s, tennis has also become very important, because just like soccer and bicycle racing, it's a Big Money™ thing, and we've had a few tennis prodigies here who've managed to make it to the international top — e.g. Kim Clijsters and Justine Hénin. The aforementioned three sports branches even take precedence over Formula One racing in the media, even though Formula One is quite a big budget thing as well.

Soccer is quite a Western European thing, actually. It's highly popular in just about all Western European countries — including the United Kingdom and Ireland — albeit perhaps less so in the Scandinavian countries. Scandinavia and Finland tend to favor rallying, because their cold climates often provide for the required amounts of snow and mud to allow for some serious drifting. :p

Most of the news in Belgium today is of international origins, although there is somewhat of a local panic situation as well because of the big storm which is expected to hit the Belgian coast this afternoon, which will be coinciding with an unusually high tide due to the full moon. Traditionally, the hazard of flooding at the coast also means that the city of Antwerp — which is quite a long distance away from the coast — will be at risk of flooding as well, given that Antwerp has already been a very important international harbor since the middle ages, and also because the ancient sewer system of the inner city of Antwerp has already proven itself inadequate for several decades. Whenever there's an unusually high tide and/or a bad thunderstorm, the sewers start spitting out water instead of draining it.

I hope the above satisfies your curiosity. :p

Gio
13th January 2017, 09:37
Local photos will do nicely ...
I like pictures as well.

heyokah
13th January 2017, 09:37
For what it's worth...... Oh well, perhaps it's worth something.

A list of the 10 Healthiest Countries in the World.


http://www.healthfitnessrevolution.com/10-healthiest-countries-in-the-world/

PS, I'm Dutch, living in France...... ;)

Gio
13th January 2017, 10:45
hmm ...

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/695206198887456769/66_bxg5q.png

Flanders News.BE (http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english#)

Elen
13th January 2017, 10:49
hmm ...

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/695206198887456769/66_bxg5q.png

Flanders News.BE (http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english#)

hmm :getcoat:

Gio
13th January 2017, 10:54
Perhaps (not) the equivalent to CBS News ...

It's good to know what's happening around the world.

Gio
13th January 2017, 11:01
hmm :getcoat:

What's the problem?

Aragorn
13th January 2017, 11:21
hmm ...

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/695206198887456769/66_bxg5q.png

Flanders News.BE (http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english#)


That's the English news version of the public — i.e. state-owned — television and radio network. As you can see, there isn't much local news worthy of reporting on. And their international news for most part comes from CNN, Fox News, NBC, and the likes.

They all just parrot each other, and they never question the veracity of any news coming out of the USA. They're also very big on political correctness. :rolleyes:

Gio
13th January 2017, 11:29
That's the English news version of the public — i.e. state-owned — television and radio network. As you can see, there isn't much local news worthy of reporting on. And their international news for most part comes from CNN, Fox News, NBC, and the likes.

They all just parrot each other, and they never question the veracity of any news coming out of the USA. They're also very big on political correctness. :rolleyes:

And CBS ... You left out CBS ... http://static.skaip.org/img/emoticons/v2/ffffff/giggle.gif

Aragorn
13th January 2017, 11:37
And CBS ... You left out CBS ... http://static.skaip.org/img/emoticons/v2/ffffff/giggle.gif

Well, I'm sure they'd be watching that too, but CBS is lesser known here in Belgium. CNN and NBC are on the regular analog cable, and I think Fox News may be as well nowadays, but I don't think I've ever seen CBS on there — not even when I was still subscribed to digital television.

I don't have any cable TV subscription anymore these days — I haven't watched any television anymore for years, actually — but I do remember that Al Jazeera was also being offered on digital television, and possibly on analog cable as well. I don't remember RT being on the cable here, neither analog nor digital, but perhaps that has changed.

In the end, it's like Bruce sang... 57 Channels And Nothing On (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc) ;)




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc

Gio
13th January 2017, 11:47
Just a note ...

If we here on this forum (or any other alternative community forum) were to
disinvolve from our postings sources from any of the major world news
outlets - It might get awfully boring around the camp fires.

Aragorn
13th January 2017, 11:55
Just a note ...

If we here on this forum (or any other alternative community forum) were to
disinvolve from our postings sources from any of the major world news
outlets - It might get awfully boring around the camp fires.

I agree. I feel that, even if the mainstream media are misleading us with fake news, then that in itself is already interesting enough to report on here. Because by their fake news, they are trying to obfuscate the real news, and in such a way that patterns start to emerge into the public awareness. They can't camouflage these patterns, so we do end up gleaning information from them. ;)

Dreamtimer
14th January 2017, 11:12
There would be plenty of truth mixed in with the fake news. That's how it's done. We have to figure out how to hone in on it. The truth has a ring. Peoples' instincts can be very helpful in discerning truth.

There is also the issue of media parroting media and it happens in the alternative world too.

People have a tendency to believe reports that concur with what they already believe or want to believe. Personal bias exists in every community around. Ignoring mainstream news completely would probably not be a good idea.

jonsnow
14th January 2017, 15:54
Holland has huge dams because most of the country is under the water sea level. Flooding is a problem especially many years ago were the rivers flooded a lot of the country at the time leaving the flooded area was not enforced because the government was afraid of being sued . Holland as I remember is divided into two regions Flemish and Dutch . Amsterdam is famous for smoking dope legal and red light district which is quite different . I quite like the canals and the transport system which disencourage cars mostly bikes and trams . I found the city expensive but fun I got drunk at Heineken museum walked past Ann frank house or factory. Well there was a que and its well depressing saw bunch solders come down side building with rope ( festival ?) .

Aragorn
14th January 2017, 16:36
Holland has huge dams because most of the country is under the water sea level.

That is correct, and part of the Flanders lies below sea level as well. ;)


Flooding is a problem especially many years ago were the rivers flooded a lot of the country at the time leaving the flooded area was not enforced because the government was afraid of being sued . Holland as I remember is divided into two regions Flemish and Dutch .

No, you would be mistaken there. ;) The name Holland is often used for referring to the whole of the Netherlands, but it is in fact the name of two distinct provinces — North Holland and South Holland — which together form a single large region within the Netherlands.

The Flanders on the other hand make up for the northern half of Belgium and are comprised of five provinces: West Flanders, East Flanders, Antwerp, Limburg and North Brabant. The latter province came to be still only recently as part of the state reform, in which the two halves of what used to be the single province of Brabant were created as distinct provinces — one for the Flanders region and one for the Walloon region.