Toward an index of preventable mortality

Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1913-

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Toward an index of preventable mortality

Published Date:

May 1981

Series:

Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research ; no. 85 ; DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 81-1359 ;

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Personal Authors:

Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1913-

Corporate Authors:

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

Keywords:

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Pubmed ID:

7245621

Description:

This report presents a research study on the development of an index that reflects the extent to which an area's mortality rates exceed the lowest possible rates that could be achieved at this epoch in the United States. The index is applied to mortality rates in 19 selected health service areas during 1969-71.

Document Type:

Journal Issue

Collection(s):

Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection

Place as Subject:

United States

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