An interactive map launched Feb. 14 by the nonprofit iLoveMountains.org plots county-level data on indicators of health and quality of life in relation to mountaintop mining sites.
"The Human Cost of Coal" is a map centered on the mountaintop mining region of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.
- State Journal
And in other mining news comes a Yale study suggesting mining may not be the culprit for all the disease in Appalachia.
A new study out of Yale University offers evidence that coal mining isn’t directly to blame for Appalachia’s health problems—but it could play a part.
For years, researchers have tried to figure out why people in Appalachia contract diabetes, heart disease and various cancers at higher rates than most of the country. Several studies out of West Virginia University found links between some of those maladies and coal mining. The new study, from researchers at Yale’s School of Public Health, suggests the causes are more complicated.
- WFPL
A century ago it was the pioneering 'poverty' map which charted starvation and deprivation across London and the squalor of Victorian Britain.
Now a modern-day version of social researcher Charles Booth's influential health map has painted a similar picture of sickness and disease, but with very different 21st Century causes.
While many of the poor in London 100 years ago were suffering from starvation, the same areas in the capital today are rife with deadly Type 2 diabetes, caused not by malnutrition but by an excess of junk food.
The new maps are from Dr Douglas Noble and were published in the British Medical Journal. Booth maps were based on observation; Noble's use electronic medical records
- Daily Mail
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/22 at 03:00 AM |
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A GIS study focussed on Los Angeles, CA revealed that the distance for patents to travel to access outpatient substance abuse treatment (OSAT) is between two and six miles. No comparison was given for English speaking clinics. Also noteworthy: private facilities are less likley to have Spanish speaking staff while those with either a state license or a higher percentage of Medicaid patients was more likely to have such staff.
- Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention via 7th Space
A study published in BMC Public Health aimed "to investigate spatial patterns of stroke and mochardial infarction (MI) mortality risks in the East Tennessee Appalachian Region so as to identify neighborhoods with the highest risks." The results suggest neighborhoods belonging to high risk clusters of stroke and MI mortality tended to have high proportions of the population with low education attainment.
- BMC Public Health (full provisional PDF available [Yah for open access!])
Locals in New York City do not agree with the USDA's definition of a food desert. The agency feels bodagas (small stores with little or no fresh food) qualify but the locals feel they do not. The agency puts the number of people in the city within a food desert as 26,000; the city counts 3 million. The fear of the city is that when grocery store chains see these numbers they will avoid the city.
- New York Daily News
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/16 at 03:00 AM |
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