Correlating pharmaceutical data with a national health survey as a proxy for estimating rural population health

• Main Authors: Cossman Ronald E (Author), Cossman Jeralynn S (Author), James Wesley L (Author), Blanchard Troy (Author), Thomas Richard (Author), Pol Louis G (Author), Cosby Arthur G (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Chronic disease accounts for nearly three-quarters of US deaths, yet prevalence rates are not consistently reported at the state level and are not available at the sub-state level. This makes it difficult to assess trends in prevalen...