Open AccessUsefulness of Tobacco Check Boxes on Death Certificates: Texas, 1987–1998
Author(s) -
Juan Carlos Zevallos,
Peiwu Huang,
Monica Smoot,
Kenneth Condon,
Celan Alo
Publication year - 2004
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.94.9.1610
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , confidence interval , tobacco use , environmental health , cause of death , gerontology , population , pathology , disease , sociology
We compared reports of deaths in which tobacco use was a contributing factor ("tobacco-associated deaths") before and after the addition to death certificates in Texas of a check-box question asking whether tobacco use contributed to an individual's death.