An interactive map launched Feb. 14 by the nonprofit iLoveMountains.org plots county-level data on indicators of health and quality of life in relation to mountaintop mining sites.
"The Human Cost of Coal" is a map centered on the mountaintop mining region of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.
And in other mining news comes a Yale study suggesting mining may not be the culprit for all the disease in Appalachia.
A new study out of Yale University offers evidence that coal mining isn’t directly to blame for Appalachia’s health problems—but it could play a part.
For years, researchers have tried to figure out why people in Appalachia contract diabetes, heart disease and various cancers at higher rates than most of the country. Several studies out of West Virginia University found links between some of those maladies and coal mining. The new study, from researchers at Yale’s School of Public Health, suggests the causes are more complicated.
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A century ago it was the pioneering 'poverty' map which charted starvation and deprivation across London and the squalor of Victorian Britain.
Now a modern-day version of social researcher Charles Booth's influential health map has painted a similar picture of sickness and disease, but with very different 21st Century causes.
While many of the poor in London 100 years ago were suffering from starvation, the same areas in the capital today are rife with deadly Type 2 diabetes, caused not by malnutrition but by an excess of junk food.
The new maps are from Dr Douglas Noble and were published in the British Medical Journal. Booth maps were based on observation; Noble's use electronic medical records
