Inequalities in life expectancy among US counties, 1980 to 2014: Temporal trends and key drivers

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1003-1011

  Dwyer Lindgren, Laura ^a   Bertozzi Villa, Amelia ^a   Stubbs, Rebecca W ^a   Morozoff, Chloe ^a   Mackenbach, Johan P ^b   Van Lenthe, Frank J ^b   Mokdad, Ali H ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLISM; MORTALITY RISK; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; BIRTH RATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; BIRTH RATE; CHILD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85024489209     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.0918     Document Type: Article

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