Socioeconomic disparities in U.S. mortality: The role of smoking and alcohol/drug abuse

Prior studies have identified smoking as a key driver of socioeconomic disparities in U.S. mortality, but the growing drug epidemic leads us to question whether drug abuse is exacerbating those disparities, particularly for mortality from external causes. We use data from a national survey of midlif...

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Main Authors: Dana A. Glei, Chioun Lee, Maxine Weinstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827320303360