Underlying causes of the emerging nonmetropolitan mortality penalty.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.2105/AJPH.2009.174185 and PMC identifier 2901280.
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Abstract
The nonmetropolitan mortality penalty results in an estimated 40 201 excessive US deaths per year, deaths that would not occur if nonmetropolitan and metropolitan residents died at the same rate. We explored the underlying causes of the nonmetropolitan mortality penalty by examining variation in cause of death. Declines in heart disease and cancer death rates in metropolitan areas drive the nonmetropolitan mortality penalty. Future work should explore why the top causes of death are higher in nonmetropolitan areas than they are in metropolitan areas.
Medical subject headings
- Cause of Death
- Heart Diseases
- Neoplasms
- Rural Health
- Stroke