Comparison of All-Cause Mortality Rates and Inequities Between Black and White Populations Across the 30 Most Populous US Cities.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

To address elevated mortality rates and historically entrenched racial inequities in mortality rates, the United States needs targeted efforts at all levels of government. However, few or no all-cause mortality data are available at the local level to motivate and guide city-level actions for health equity within the country's biggest cities.

Objectives

To provide city-level data on all-cause mortality rates and racial inequities within cities and to determine whether these measures changed during the past decade.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System and American Community Survey population estimates to calculate city-level mortality rates for the non-Hispanic Black (Black

SUBMITTER: Benjamins MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9386890 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature