County health factors associated with avoidable deaths from cardiovascular disease in the United States, 2006-2010

Public Health Reports

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 438-448

  Greer, Sophia ^a   Schieb, Linda J ^a   Ritchey, Matthew ^a   George, Mary ^a   Casper, Michele ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ICD-10-CM; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964770409     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491613100310     Document Type: Article

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