The burden of premature morbidity and mortality reflected in our ranking highlights the need for improvements in population health. More than two-thirds of all deaths annually in North Carolina are attributed to chronic diseases and injuries.
The North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics has listed the top five causes of death in 2014 as cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.
Based on the latest America’s Health Rankings report, North Carolina’s challenges are large disparity in health status by education, low per capita public health funding and high infant mortality rate. Our state’s low prevalence of excessive drinking, high immunization rates among adolescent females for HPV (human papillomavirus) and high immunization coverage among
children are noted as strengths.
The burden of premature morbidity and mortality reflected in our ranking highlights the need for improvements in population health. More than two-thirds of all deaths annually in North Carolina are attributed to chronic diseases and injuries.
The North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics has listed the top five causes of death in 2014 as cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.
Based on the latest America’s Health Rankings report, North Carolina’s challenges are large disparity in health status by education, low per capita public health funding and high infant mortality rate. Our state’s low prevalence of excessive drinking, high immunization rates among adolescent females for HPV (human papillomavirus) and high immunization coverage among
children are noted as strengths....
March 24, 2017By Christopher S. Rugabeer
A sobering portrait of less-educated middle-age white Americans (click here) emerged Thursday with new research showing them dying disproportionately from what one expert calls "deaths of despair" - suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases.
The new paper by two Princeton University economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, concludes that the trend is driven by the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with a high school diploma or less.
The economists also argue that dwindling job opportunities have triggered broader problems for this group. They are more likely than their college-educated counterparts, for example, to be unemployed, unmarried or suffering from poor health.
"This is a story of the collapse of the white working class," Deaton said in an interview. "The labor market has very much turned against them."
Those dynamics helped fuel the rise of President Donald Trump, who won widespread support among whites with only a high school diploma....
