Erratum to: Vital signs: Racial disparities in age-specific mortality among blacks or African Americans — United States, 1999–2015 (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, (2017) 66, 17, (444-456), 10.15585/mmwr.mm6617e1);Vital signs: Racial disparities in age-specific mortality among blacks or African Americans — United States, 1999–2015

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 66, Issue 17, 2017, Pages 444-456

  Cunningham, Timothy J ^a   Croft, Janet B ^a   Liu, Yong ^a   Lu, Hua ^a   Eke, Paul I ^a   Giles, Wayne H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85019049191     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6618a11     Document Type: Erratum

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