Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States

BACKGROUND: The gap between the highest and lowest life expectancies for race-county combinations in the United States is over 35 y. We divided the race-county combinations of the US population into eight distinct groups, referred to as the “eight Americas,” to explore the causes of the disparities...

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Autores principales: Murray, Christopher J. L, Kulkarni, Sandeep C, Michaud, Catherine, Tomijima, Niels, Bulzacchelli, Maria T, Iandiorio, Terrell J, Ezzati, Majid
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16968116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030260

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16968116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030260

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