Health and Nutrition of Coal Center, PA Residents

Diet Behavior & Nutrition

Forty four percent of Coal Center residents report that their diet is generally healthy. People here have milk to drink or on their cereal 17 times per month. This includes chocolate and other flavored milks, as well as hot cocoa made with milk, and does not count small amounts of milk added to coffee or tea. People living here eat an average of six meals (breakfasts, lunches or dinners) per week that were prepared away from home in places such as restaurants, fast food places, food stands, grocery stores or from vending machines. They get three of these meals from a fast-food or pizza place. They also eat two frozen meals or frozen pizzas on average monthly.

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Oral Health

The average Coal Center resident last visited a dentist one years ago (including all types of dentists, such as, orthodontists, oral surgeons, and all other dental specialists, as well as dental hygienists). Twenty nine percent of people living here 30 years of age and older, are embarrassed because of their teeth, mouth or dentures. Fourteen percent think they might have gum disease (might have swollen gums, receding gums, sore or infected gums or loose teeth). Coal Center residents rate the overall health of their teeth and gums on average at 47 percent. People living here aged 30 years and older, aside from brushing their teeth with toothbrush, use dental floss or any other device that clean between teeth on average three days per week. They also use mouthwash or other dental rinse products to treat dental disease or dental problems an average of three days per week. The average person living here (including children) has 28 teeth.

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Weight

The average height of Coal Center residents 16 years and older is 63 inches. The average weight is 157 pounds. Their average BMI (Body Mass Index) is 28. Thirty two percent of people living here are obese. Thirty five percent have ever been obese. Forty one percent have ever tried to lose weight.

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Drug Use

Sixty two percent of Coal Center residents have ever used marijuana or hashish. Twenty one percent of people living here have ever used cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine. Twenty one percent have ever used any form of cocaine, such as powder, 'crack', 'free base', and coca paste. Three percent have ever used heroin. Five percent have ever used methamphetamines.

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Diabetes

Thirty nine percent of people had a blood test for high sugar or diabetes within the past three years.

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Kidney Conditions-Urology

Coal Center residents 20 years and older on average get up to urinate one time at night (from time they go to bed at night until the time they get up in the morning).

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Taste & Smell

Twenty nine percent of Coal Center residents above the age of 40 have problems with their ability to smell, such as not being able to smell things or things not smelling the way they are supposed to. Fourteen percent have been having problems with their ability to taste sweet, sour, salty or bitter foods and drinks. Eighty six percent of people above the age of 40 have ever had wisdom teeth removed. Fourteen percent have ever had their tonsils removed. Twenty nine percent have lost consciousness because of a head injury. Twenty nine percent have ever had a broken nose or other serious injury to face or skull. Forty three percent have had two or more sinus infections.

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Health Insurance

Sixty six percent of people living in Coal Center are covered by health insurance or some other kind of health care plan.

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Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

Ten percent of people take their blood pressure at home.

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Dermatology

Thirty three percent of people living in Coal Center use sunscreen.

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Mental Health

Forty eight percent of Coal Center residents 18 years old and older have usually little interest or pleasure in doing things. Thirty eight percent often feel down, depressed, or hopeless. Fifty three percent of people living here have trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleep too much. Sixty four percent of people often feel tired or have little energy. Forty one percent are bothered by poor appetite or overeating. Twenty percent often feel badly about themselves, that they are a failure or have let themselves or their families down. Twenty nine percent have trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching TV. Seventeen percent of people living here move or speak so slowly that other people could have noticed, or the opposite - being so fidgety or restless that they have been moving around a lot more than usual.

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Prescription Medications

Coal Center residents on average take one prescription medicines.

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Alcohol use

Seventy four percent of people living in Coal Center have at least one alcoholic drink per month. Seven percent of people living here do not drink alcohol at all. People living here drink alcohol 3.7 days per month on average. They have 3.1 drinks per week. On average people living here have 5 or more drinks on nine days a year.

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Sexual Behavior

Hundred percent of Coal Center residents 18 years and older have ever had vaginal, anal or oral sex. Ninety six percent of males have ever had vaginal sex with a woman. Ninety percent have ever performed oral sex on a woman. Sixty one percent have ever had anal sex with a woman. Nine percent of males in Coal Center have ever had any kind of sex with a man, including oral or anal. Hundred percent of females have ever had vaginal sex with a man. Ninety four percent have ever performed oral sex on a man. Twenty one percent have ever had anal sex. Twenty one percent of females have ever had any kind of sex with a woman. People in Coal Center were 16 years old on average when they had sex for the first time. The average man in his lifetime had any kind of sex with 14 women. He has vaginal sex with 13 women. People living here were on average 18 years old when they first performed oral sex on a woman. Males in their lifetime have anal or oral sex with 3.7 men on average. They have had 2.6 anal sex partners in their lifetime. People in Coal Center were 16 years old on average when they first performed oral sex on a man. They performed oral sex on average on three men in their lifetime. Eleven percent of people use protection, like a condom or dental dam, while performing oral sex. The average person in Coal Center has vaginal or anal sex 77 times a year. Fifty five percent have sex without using a condom. Females in Coal Center 18 years and older have had any kind of sex with seven men on average. They have had seven male vaginal sex partners in their lifetimes. Women here have on average 0.4 female sex partners in their lifetimes. Thirty nine percent of men 18 years old and older are circumcised.

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Pesticide Use

Six percent of households in Coal Center use chemical products in their homes to control fleas, roaches, ants, termites or other insects.

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Sleep Disorders

Coal Center residents 16 years and older usually get seven hours of sleep at night on weekdays or workdays. Nineteen percent of them have trouble sleeping.

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Smoking-Cigarette Use

Fifty five percent of Coal Center residents currently smoke cigarettes.

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Physical Activity

Thirty percent of Coal Center residents' work involve vigorous-intensity activity that causes large increases in breathing or heart rate, like carrying or lifting heavy loads, digging or construction work for at least 10 minutes continuously. Fifty one percent of people do moderate-intensity activities at work that cause small increases in breathing or heart rate such as brisk walking or carrying light loads for at least 10 minutes continuously. Fifty four percent walk or bicycle for at least 10 minutes continuously to get to and from places. Forty six percent do any vigorous-intensity sports, fitness or recreational activities that cause large increases in breathing or heart rate like running or basketball for at least 10 minutes continuously. Forty nine percent do any moderate-intensity sports, fitness or recreational activities that cause a small increase in breathing or heart rate such as brisk walking, bicycling, swimming or golf for at least 10 minutes continuously. People living here spend six hours sitting on a typical day (this includes sitting at work, at home, getting to and from places, or with friends, including time spent sitting at a desk, traveling in a car or bus, reading, playing cards, watching television or using a computer). They usually sit and watch TV or videos for about two hours per day. They use a computer or play computer games (including Playstation, Nintendo DS, or other portable video games) outside of work or school for 1.5 hours per day.

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Medical Conditions

Fifteen percent of Coal Center residents have ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that they had asthma. One percent of people living here has anemia, sometimes called "tired blood" or "low blood". Twenty eight percent are overweight. Five percent of people living in Coal Center have ever received a blood transfusion. Fifteen percent have trouble seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Twelve percent of people 20 and older have arthritis. Three percent have another thyroid problem. Three percent have ever had chronic bronchitis.

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Reproductive Health

Fifty eight percent of births in Coal Center were vaginal deliveries. Forty two percent of deliveries were cesarean. 100.0 percent of deliveries resulted in live births. Fifty five percent of pregnancies resulted in a delivery. Eighty four percent of women breastfeed their children. Seventy six percent have ever taken birth control pills for any reason. Twenty five percent have ever used Depo-Provera or injectable birth control to prevent pregnancy.

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Current Health Status

People living in Coal Center report their general health condition on average at 58 percent. Two percent of them donate blood. Excluding tests they have had as part of blood donations, 49 percent of Coal Center residents have ever had their blood tested for the AIDS virus infection. Six percent of people living in Coal Center are left-handed.

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Consumer Behavior

People in Coal Center spend $314 per month on average on food for their families at supermarkets or grocery stores. This is 31 percent of their income. The average family in Coal Center spends $103 on food at other stores monthly. This is eight percent of their income. They spend $142 on eating out, including cafeterias at work or at school or on vending machines. This is 14 percent of their income. They also spend $20 monthly on carried out or delivered food. This is one percent of their income.

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Audiometry

People living in Coal Center report their general condition of hearing on average at 85 percent. Eighty percent of them can usually hear and understand, without the use of a hearing aid or any other listening devices, what a person says without seeing his or her face if that person whispers to them from across a quiet room. Ninety nine percent of people can hear a normal voice across a quiet room. Thirty seven percent of people living here have ever had a job where they were exposed to loud sounds or noise. Loud means so loud that they must speak in a raised voice to be heard. Thirty percent of people in Coal Center had off-work exposure to loud noise.

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Preventive Aspirin Use

Fourteen percent of Coal Center residents 40 and older take a low-dose aspirin each day to prevent heart attacks, strokes or cancer.

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Physical Functioning

Ten percent of Coal Center residents 20 or older have limitations caused by a long-term physical, mental or emotional problems or illnesses keeping them from working at a job or business. Thirteen percent are limited in the kind or amount of work they can do because of physical, mental or emotional problems.

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