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Rising geographic inequality in mortality in the United States

OBJECTIVES: To examine trends in inequality in life expectancy and age-specific death rates across 40 US spatial units from 1990 to 2016. METHODS: We use multiple cause-of-death data from vital statistics to estimate measures of inequality in mortality across metropolitan status and geographic regio...

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Autores principales: Vierboom, Yana C., Preston, Samuel H., Hendi, Arun S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6804490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31649997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100478