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Root Causes of Appalachia’s Deaths of Despair
The U.S. is experiencing a decline in life expectancy, particularly among rural white males in their most productive years. Appalachia is disproportionally represented in mortality rates, accounting for 30% of the U.S. population, but 50% of the excess mortality attributed to the “deaths of despair”...
Autor principal: | Scutchfield, F. Douglas |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The University of Kentucky
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9138851/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35769901 http://dx.doi.org/10.13023/jah.0102.01 |
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