Triangulating on success: Innovation, public health, medical care, and cause-specific US mortality rates over a half century (1950-2000)

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Rust, George ^a   Satcher, David ^a   Fryer, George Edgar ^b   Levine, Robert S ^c   Blumenthal, Dan El S ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; VITAL STATISTICS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 77950586163     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.164350     Document Type: Article

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