And I'm sure that environmental causes have a lot to do with it, oil spills,
coal mining, fracking. It's poorer people who live where these things
happen.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Hachey
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2017 8:40 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Us VS. Them
Hi all,
More evidence of how we are unjustly separated by income and zip code. IMHO,
health disparities of the kind descried below are barbaric and we're
barbarians for allowing these disparities to continue.
Bob Hachey
Cancer rates up in some low-income sections of US . By Lindsey Tanner
Associated Press . CHICAGO - Americans in certain struggling parts of the
country are dying from cancer at rising rates, even as the cancer death rate
nationwide continues to fall, an exhaustive new analysis has found. In parts
of the country that are relatively poor and have higher rates of obesity and
smoking, cancer death rates rose nearly 50 percent, while wealthier pockets
of the country saw death rates fall by nearly half. Better screening and
treatment have contributed to the improvement in the nation as a whole - but
the study underscores that not all Americans have benefited from these
advances. "We are going in the wrong direction," said Ali Mokdad, the
study's lead author and a professor at the University of Washington's
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. "We should be going forward,
not backward. Stark differences in regional cancer death rates have been
found in previous research, but this one stands out for providing detailed
estimates for deaths from nearly 30 types of cancer in all 3,100 US counties
over 35 years. From 1980 to 2014, the US death rate per 100,000 people for
all cancers combined dropped from about 240 to 192 - a 20 percent decline.
More than 19 million Americans died from cancer during that time, the study
found. The picture was rosiest the Colorado ski country, where cancer deaths
per 100,000 residents dropped from 130 in 1980 to just 70 in 2014; and
bleakest in some eastern Kentucky counties, where they soared by up to 45
percent. "We all know this is unacceptable . . . in a country that spends
more than anybody else on health," Mokdad said. The Affordable Care Act took
effect in the study's final years and emphasized prevention services
including no-cost screenings for breast, colorectal, and cervical cancers.
Any benefits wouldn't be evident in the latest results, since cancer takes
years to develop.
