Exploring spatial patterns of mortality: The new Atlas of United States Mortality

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3211-3220

  Pickle, Linda W ^a   Mungiole, Michael ^b   Jones, Gretchen K ^b   White, Andrew A ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER STATISTICS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033573303     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991215)18:23<3211::AID-SIM311>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Conference Paper

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