Kentucky News: Grant From The Attack In Southeastern Kentucky Cancer
Lexington, Ky. – This Court, University Press of Kentucky, but this time the enemy is not another basketball team, but the cancer. Researchers from the University to devote the next five years to prevent cancer of the cervix and other cancers that afflict many people in southeastern Kentucky. These measures will be financed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one million dollars per year for five years. Health workers will try to prevent cancer through the development of the rural population in the prevention of cancer and vaccines for behavioral change.
Rich Seckel, Co-Chairman of the Kentucky Voices for Health, provides funding for the enormous investment.
“We see that Kentucky is in good health, wealth, in which people’s health, they help to shape and control costs.”
Kentucky in the Appalachian region has a history of cancer rates are higher than in other parts of the state and above the national average. Seckel, stressed that the project is on individuals and communities responsible for their own health care.
“Communities to address the issue of health. They talk, they are the way to work with others, they want to learn something, and by the way, I think the case of health care provides a healthy municipalities and communities more effectively “.
Scientist’s hope that the lessons learned from this project could also in other regions where the United States.