Open AccessGrowth and Persistence of Place-Based Mortality in the United States: The Rural Mortality Penalty
Author(s) -
Arthur G. Cosby,
M. Maya McDoom-Echebiri,
Wesley James,
Hasna Khandekar,
W. Norman Brown,
Heather Hanna
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2018.304787
Subject(s) - poverty , rurality , census , demography , race (biology) , rural area , public health , geography , health equity , medicine , gerontology , environmental health , population , economic growth , sociology , economics , gender studies , nursing , pathology
To examine 47 years of US urban and rural mortality trends at the county level, controlling for effects of education, income, poverty, and race.