West Virginia

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West Virginia is a small, mountaineous U.S. state in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. West Virginia is contiguous with Ohio, which is part of the "circumcision belt of America" that runs through the midwestern United States. West Virginia is an extension of that belt.

West Virginia has a population of about 1,770,000.

Coal mining is an important industry in West Virginia.

Popularity of male circumcision in West Virginia

It is very likely that third-party payment is freely available for the medically not indicated, non-therapeutic, harmful, surgical amputation of the normal foreskin.

West Virginia has long enjoyed the dubious distinction of having the highest incidence (87%) in 2009 of harmful, painful, traumatic, non-medically-indicated child circumcision in the United States.

American circumcision rates by state.

Contemporary research indicates that non-therapeutic male circumcision is very harmful.

Health care in West Virginia

The emphasis on child circumcision in West Virginia consumes medical resources (funding and time of health care providers} that would otherwise be available to treat actual diseases and improve health.

According to Wikipedia, health care in West Virginia is generally substandard:

"United Health Foundation's "America's Health Rankings" for 2013 found that Americans are making considerable progress in key health measures. West Virginia, however, ranked either last or second-to-last in twenty categories, including cancer, child immunization, diabetes, disabilities, drug deaths, teeth loss, low birth weight, missed work days due to health, prescription drug overdose, preventable hospitalizations, and senior clinical care."

"The residents of West Virginia have a lower life expectancy than the national average. In 2014 life expectancy for both sexes in the state was 76.0 years compared to 79.1 years for the United States as a whole. In 2014, males in West Virginia lived an average of 73.6 years compared to a national average of 76.7 years and females lived an average of 77.5 years compared to a national average of 81.5 years. Male life expectancy in West Virginia between 1980 and 2014 increased by 4.7 years, compared to a national average of a 6.7-year increase. Life expectancy for females in West Virginia between 1980 and 2014 increased by 1.7 years, compared to a national average of a 4.0-year increase. Life expectancy for both sexes is among the lowest of all states."

West Virginia may have the poorest health care of any U.S. State.

Physicians

According to Wikipedia, 10 to 15 percent of physicians practicing in West Virginia are Doctors of Osteopathy (DO).

External links

• Wikipedia article: West Virginia