West Virginia Shows Challenges of Getting People Healthier

Highlights West Virginia's health challenges, including those over the last 20 years, as indicators for health concerns across the country. The state typically experiences health issues years before the rest of the country catches up, and so serves as a indicator for looming national challenges. Includes discussion of suicide rates, drug use, overdoses, and overdose deaths, blood-borne illnesses associated with injection drug use, obesity and related illnesses like heart disease and diabetes, and overall life expectancy.
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - Category: Rural Health Source Type: news