{"id":191621,"date":"2025-09-30T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191621\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:05:08","slug":"what-happened-to-health-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191621\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Health in Kansas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        What Happened to Health in Kansas?<br \/>\nPriorities for Reversing a Long-Term Decline in Health Ranking<\/p>\n<p>Study participants identified 52 concerns. The top four were:<\/p>\n<p>Closure of rural hospitals and health care services<br \/>\nLack of Medicaid expansion<br \/>\nLimited availability of mental health services<br \/>\nLow public health funding<\/p>\n<p>Other high priority issues included chronic disease, obesity, income and wealth inequality, rural workforce shortages, housing access, lack of a culture of health, and system fragmentation.<\/p>\n<p>Participants emphasized structural and system-level drivers of Kansas\u2019 health ranking decline, rather than individual behaviors. The findings underscore that policy decisions, underinvestment and infrastructure gaps are key contributors to the state\u2019s health outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Happened to Health in Kansas? Priorities for Reversing a Long-Term Decline in Health Ranking Study participants identified&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-191621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}