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...rural residents suffering from a lack of access to healthcare providers, or are they simply less apt to follow the edicts of a health-crazed media? The answer is probably a little bit of both, says Mark Eberhardt, epidemiologist at CDC?s national center for health statistics, and an author of the study. "On the one hand," Eberhardt says, "you have the issue of educating people about health issues: Some high-risk behaviors, like smoking, remain higher in rural areas than in cities and suburbs. On the other hand, we did see a lower access to physicians, dentists, and health...
Sources: Good News--American Chemical Society national meeting (8/27/01); New England Journal of Medicine (8/30/01). Bad News--CDC (8/28/01); American Journal of Public Health (9/01...
...CDC credits the downturn to changing expanded economic opportunities for teens during the boom times of the 1990s and the increase in condom use by teens as awareness of HIV and AIDS grew...
...Stephanie Ventura: We get the rates of abortion from two sources. The first is the CDC Division of Reproductive Health, which uses a voluntary reporting system. State health departments provide counts and rates of abortions to them. The second is the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which conducts an abortion provider survey. They know about people who do relatively few abortions, who may not report to the state, so their numbers are higher that the state health departments...
...adjust the figures from the CDC to the Guttmacher system. The CDC, in their reports, acknowledges that the state health department data they get is about 10 to 12 percent incomplete...