Toward an Index of Preventable Mortality

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• 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.
• Subjects:
  • Public Health
  • Health Surveys
  • Vital Statistics
  • Epidemiology
• Keywords:
  • mortality rate, preventable mortality index
• Source:
  Other NCHS Survey or Data System
• Series:
  NCHS NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  43 pdf pages
• Issue:
  2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/12913/cdc_12913_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.94 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d134f38f99a1bd5d623ddeecbc54f277adbac4bd6c7f24f9520cdb57445a8a675950a90036ecbe8618131098fb76ffceb84cadaab7fefe1a23911f777cd4b5b5