US County-Level Trends in Mortality Rates for Major Causes of Death, 1980-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

County-level patterns in mortality rates by cause have not been systematically described but are potentially useful for public health officials, clinicians, and researchers seeking to improve health and reduce geographic disparities.

Objectives

To demonstrate the use of a novel method for county-level estimation and to estimate annual mortality rates by US county for 21 mutually exclusive causes of death from 1980 through 2014.

Design, setting, and participants

Redistribution methods for garbage codes (implausible or insufficiently specific cause of death codes) and small area estimation methods (statistical methods for estimating rates in small subpopulations) were applied to death registration data from the National Vital Statistics System to estimate ann

SUBMITTER: Dwyer-Lindgren L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5576343 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature