Mapping high or low mortality places across time in the United States: A research note on a health visualization and analysis project

Health and Place

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 361-369

  Cossman, Ronald E ^a   Cossman, Jeralynn Sittig ^a   Jackson, Rita ^a   Cosby, Arthur ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data visualization; GIS; Mortality; Spatial persistence; Temporal persistence

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POLICY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141453817     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(03)00017-0     Document Type: Article

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