Trends and Patterns of Differences in Infectious Disease Mortality Among US Counties, 1980-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Infectious diseases are mostly preventable but still pose a public health threat in the United States, where estimates of infectious diseases mortality are not available at the county level.

Objective

To estimate age-standardized mortality rates and trends by county from 1980 to 2014 from lower respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, HIV/AIDS, meningitis, hepatitis, and tuberculosis.

Design and setting

This study used deidentified death records from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and population counts from the US Census Bureau, NCHS, and the Human Mortality Database. Validated small-area estimation models were applied to these data to estimate county-level infectious disease mortality rates.

Exposures

County of residence.

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SUBMITTER: El Bcheraoui C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5885870 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature