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PUBLISHED 5/20/08 ------ Living in Kern County can be hazardous to your health. That’s one way to look at the findings in a new report on public health from the Great Valley Center. Central Valley residents don’t have the doctors and medical specialists, per capita, found elsewhere in California, and they are more likely to die of diabetes and heart attacks. They suffer more often from assorted poverty- and pollution-related illnesses than the rest of the state, and are immunized from illness and disease less often. And Kern County is among the worst of the worst in several areas. Researchers used about two dozen health care indicators, including health insurance coverage, childhood asthma rates and birth weight data to arrive at the conclusions in “The State of the Great Central Valley: Public Health and Access to Care.” Among the findings: Kern is third-worst in the 19-county Central Valley in infant mortality rate, with 7.1 deaths per 1,000...
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