Just a day after Bush managed to appoint a birth control opponent to head the country's family planning office, we find that women's health is doing pretty crappy nationwide, according to a new report by the National Women's Law Center and Oregon Health & Science University.
"Overall the nation's grade was 'unsatisfactory.' Only three of the 27 benchmarks were met," Dr. Michelle Berlin of the Oregon Health & Science University told a briefing...No state received a passing or "satisfactory" grade for women's health status. Only three states -- Vermont, Minnesota and Massachusetts -- were "satisfactory minus," a drop from a report in 2004 when eight states earned that mark.
Lovely. Go here for the report, where you can search by state.
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Great. Texas gets an F, and we're 42 out of 51.
But we got S on smoking and an S on dental visits.
So while our health overall sucks, we won't smell like smoke and we'll have pretty teeth.
::sigh::
Great. Texas gets an F, and we're 42 out of 51.
But we got S on smoking and an S on dental visits.
So while our health overall sucks, we won't smell like smoke and we'll have pretty teeth.
::sigh::
Just goes to show how harmful the dogma-above-all-else approach is...which reminds me, Oct. 16 was World Food Day (women suffer disproportionately from hunger), and Frances Moore Lappe and her daughter Anna Lappe had a great article posted on the Huffington Post: "The Right to Food Means Freedom from Dogma."(In the interest of full disclosure I was recently hired part time by the Small Planet Institute, but I have been a big fan for years!)
I was shocked to find out that MA ranked so low in Wage Disparity until someone pointed out to me that there's a high-paying male-dominated industry that I happen to work for and that happens to employ a totally non-negligible percentage of the state's population . . .
I'd be really curious to see many of these general health numbers compared with those for men/general population.
Gotcha beat, Christina. Oklahoma got an F and we're 48th.
I have you beat too, Christina -- but not you, Kimmy. I'm in D.C., and we're 44th.
But I'm actually here to link you to more highlights from the report's findings, plus some tips for taking action on women's health in your state.
South Carolina has been a very misogynist state since its inception on 05/23/1788. We rank a miserable 43d, or the eighth Most Misogynist State in the Union.
I posted something about that on my blog:
http://aikenareaprogressive.blogspot.com/2007/10/south-carolina-one-of-ten-most.html