Health and Nutrition of Summerville, PA Residents

Diet Behavior & Nutrition

Fifty seven percent of Summerville residents report that their diet is generally healthy. People here have milk to drink or on their cereal seven 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 four 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 one 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 Summerville resident last visited a dentist two years ago (including all types of dentists, such as, orthodontists, oral surgeons, and all other dental specialists, as well as dental hygienists). Twenty two percent think they might have gum disease (might have swollen gums, receding gums, sore or infected gums or loose teeth). Summerville residents rate the overall health of their teeth and gums on average at 56 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 two 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 19 teeth.

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Weight

The average height of Summerville residents 16 years and older is 71 inches. The average weight is 175 pounds. Their average BMI (Body Mass Index) is 33. Sixty one percent of people living here are obese. Fifty six percent have ever been obese. Fifty six percent have ever tried to lose weight.

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Drug Use

Hundred percent of Summerville residents have ever used marijuana or hashish. Seventeen percent of people living here have ever used cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine. Seventeen percent have ever used any form of cocaine, such as powder, 'crack', 'free base', and coca paste. Seventeen percent have ever used methamphetamines.

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Diabetes

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

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Kidney Conditions-Urology

Summerville residents 20 years and older on average get up to urinate two 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

Eighty three percent of people above the age of 40 have ever had wisdom teeth removed. Thirty nine percent have ever had their tonsils removed. Twenty two percent have ever had a broken nose or other serious injury to face or skull. Seventeen percent have had two or more sinus infections.

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Health Insurance

Forty four percent of people living in Summerville are covered by health insurance or some other kind of health care plan.

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Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

Twenty two percent of people living in Summerville have been ever told by a doctor or other health professional that they had hypertension (also called high blood pressure). Twenty two percent of people take their blood pressure at home. Thirty nine percent of people in Summerville frequently check their blood cholesterol.

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Dermatology

Eighteen percent of people living in Summerville use sunscreen.

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Mental Health

Twenty two percent of Summerville residents 18 years old and older have usually little interest or pleasure in doing things. Twenty two percent often feel down, depressed, or hopeless. Sixty one percent of people living here have trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleep too much. Sixty one percent of people often feel tired or have little energy.

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Alcohol use

Eighty three percent of people living in Summerville have at least one alcoholic drink per month. People living here drink alcohol 5.2 days per month on average. They have 16.5 drinks per week.

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Sexual Behavior

Hundred percent of Summerville residents 18 years and older have ever had vaginal, anal or oral sex. Hundred percent of males have ever had vaginal sex with a woman. Seventy eight percent have ever performed oral sex on a woman. Thirty three percent have ever had anal sex with a woman. Seventeen percent of males in Summerville have ever had any kind of sex with a man, including oral or anal. People in Summerville were 14 years old on average when they had sex for the first time. People living here were on average 20 years old when they first performed oral sex on a woman. People in Summerville were 15 years old on average when they first performed oral sex on a man. The average person in Summerville has vaginal or anal sex 91 times a year. Thirty three percent have sex without using a condom. Seventy eight percent of men 18 years old and older are circumcised.

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Sleep Disorders

Summerville residents 16 years and older usually get six hours of sleep at night on weekdays or workdays. Twenty two percent of them have trouble sleeping.

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Smoking-Cigarette Use

Sixty seven percent of Summerville residents currently smoke cigarettes.

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Physical Activity

Thirty nine percent of Summerville 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. Sixty 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. Twenty two percent walk or bicycle for at least 10 minutes continuously to get to and from places. Twenty two 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. 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 three 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 2.1 hours per day.

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Medical Conditions

Twenty two percent of Summerville residents have ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that they had asthma. Seventy eight percent are overweight. Twenty two percent have trouble seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Fifty six percent of people 20 and older have arthritis.

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Current Health Status

People living in Summerville report their general health condition on average at 51 percent. Excluding tests they have had as part of blood donations, 67 percent of Summerville residents have ever had their blood tested for the AIDS virus infection.

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Consumer Behavior

People in Summerville spend $281 per month on average on food for their families at supermarkets or grocery stores. This is 18 percent of their income. The average family in Summerville spends $89 on food at other stores monthly. This is four percent of their income. They spend $69 on eating out, including cafeterias at work or at school or on vending machines. This is five percent of their income.

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Audiometry

People living in Summerville report their general condition of hearing on average at 91 percent. Hundred 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. Hundred percent of people can hear a normal voice across a quiet room. Sixty one percent of Summerville population have been bothered by ringing, roaring or buzzing in their ears or head. Seventy eight 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 nine percent of people in Summerville had off-work exposure to loud noise.

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Preventive Aspirin Use

Sixty one percent of Summerville residents 40 and older take a low-dose aspirin each day to prevent heart attacks, strokes or cancer.

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Physical Functioning

Forty four percent of Summerville 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. Forty four percent are limited in the kind or amount of work they can do because of physical, mental or emotional problems.

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