Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report of the national county health rankings shows several Kentucky counties have improved in the last two years while others have gotten...
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News More than 40 percent of counties saw increases in female death rates as the 21st Century began, while the death rate for men rose...
Deaths from drug overdoses in Kentucky jumped to a new high in 2010, and “rose a staggering 296 percent from 2000 to 2010,” Bill Estep of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. “A...
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News A recipe for how to improve health at the local level in Kentucky was the capstone of a day-long seminar in Frankfort Monday, with...
Based on the premise that much of what influences health happens outside the doctor’s office, the 2012 County Health Calculator uses education and income to illustrate how these factors can...
More progress is needed to make sure children from low-income families are going to the dentist is just one of the findings of the 2011 Kentucky Kids Count County Data,...
Tara Kaprowy, the chief writer for Kentucky Health News, won one of the first awards given by the Kentucky Rural Health Association for newspaper writing. Kaprowy won the prise for...
A treasure trove of health data about every county in Kentucky is available to journalists and community planners looking to draw a statistical picture of their area. That was the...