Poverty is hazardous to your health

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Mortality rate change, 1992-2006.  Click to enlarge.  Source: Daily Mail

 

Cancer death rates, 2014.  Click to enlarge.  Source: Rural Blog.

 

Drug overdose deaths.  Click to enlarge.   Source: New York Times

Obesity.  Double click to enlarge.  Source: Max Masnick, PhD

Some rough generalizations:

1.  Poverty and poverty-related diseases are found as much in rural America as in urban America.
2.  Poverty and poverty-related diseases are found disproportionately in the South and Southwest.
3.   All the negative indicators have a concentration in eastern Kentucky and Appalachia in general.

Compare and contrast Concentrations of people and economic activity.

Tags: Cancer, Disability, Drug Overdose, Mortality, Obesity, Persistant Poverty, Rural Poverty