Persistence of death in the United States: The remarkably different mortality patterns between America's Heartland and Dixieland

<b>Background</b>: Geographic disparities in mortality have been analyzed by place in myriad ways. Although the people who live in a place continuously change, the health characteristics of those places tend to stay the same; they are persistent. Our work analyzes persistence of mortalit...

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Main Authors: Wesley James, Jeralynn Cossman, Julia Wolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2018-10-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol39/33/