An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Not Good News For The County
While perusing our local paper that arrived in the mail this afternoon, I came across something interesting. As usual, I’m having to type this out, directly from the print (typos and all), because there is no link available.
County is less healthy and more violent than its neighbors, survey says
Sandwiched between McNairy and Wayne counties, hardin County has signicantly [sic] poorer health outcomes and more violent crime than either, a new analysis shows.
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation just released the first report to rank the overall health of the counties in all 50 states.
If you are interested, check out your county here – County Health Rankings.
Hardin county ranked 77th out of 95 Tennesse counties in terms of averall health. McNairy County and Wayne county ranked 54th and respectively.
Hardin County also led in violent crimes per 100,000 population, with a rather of 654 versus Wayne County’s 294 and McNairy’s 348.
“The health of a community depends on many factos, including individual behaviors, the quality of health care, education, jobs and the environment,” said Tennessee Health Commissioner Susan R. Cooper.
There is one very important thing missing from their ‘snapshot’ of Hardin County. Drugs. You see, like many rural areas these days, there are meth labs are cropping up, in places that are difficult for the police to get to, not to mention, due to the small population, law enforcement is at a premium. If you know anything about meth, you will be familiar with the health issues, and a tendency to violence under certain circumstances.
The rest of the article includes more stats, but I’m not going to type the whole thing out. Nor, am I making excuses for the county. I’m just pointing out something that the study failed to include.
Side note: I might be a tad slanted, but the piece came across as a push for ObamaCare.
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