Premature mortality from all causes and drug poisonings in the USA according to socioeconomic status and rurality: an analysis of death certificate data by county from 2000-15

• Main Authors: Meredith S Shiels, PhD (Author), Amy Berrington de González, DPhil (Author), Ana F Best, PhD (Author), Yingxi Chen, PhD (Author), Pavel Chernyavskiy, PhD (Author), Patricia Hartge, ScD (Author), Sahar Q Khan, MS (Author), Eliseo J Pérez-Stable, MD (Author), Erik J Rodriquez, PhD (Author), Susan Spillane, PhD (Author), David A Thomas, PhD (Author), Diana Withrow, PhD (Author), Neal D Freedman, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Increasing premature mortality among some groups of Americans has been largely driven by increases in drug poisoning deaths. However, to our knowledge, a formal descriptive study by race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, rurality, and geography has not been done. In this stud...