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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Watauga, Rude with Health
Watauga County is ranked the 4th healtiest county in the state of North Carolina.
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It appears that on several benchmarks - excessive drinking, no health insurance, access to healthy foods, preventable hospitals stays - we are considerably worse than the rest of the state. And on MOST benchmarks, we're worse than average for the country.
The only reason we're 4th healthiest in the state is because the rest of the state is abysmal on nearly everything.
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.
1 comment:
It appears that on several benchmarks - excessive drinking, no health insurance, access to healthy foods, preventable hospitals stays - we are considerably worse than the rest of the state. And on MOST benchmarks, we're worse than average for the country.
The only reason we're 4th healthiest in the state is because the rest of the state is abysmal on nearly everything.
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