Geographic data on health inequities: understanding policy implications

Affiliations

Review

Gregory Pappas. PLoS Med. 2006 Sep.

. 2006 Sep;3(9):e357.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030357.

¹ Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. gregory.pappas@aku.edu

Abstract

Pappas discusses a new study that examines US health disparities using county-level data.

Competing Interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

Eight Americas: investigating mortality disparities across races, counties, and race-counties in the United States.
Murray CJ, Kulkarni SC, Michaud C, Tomijima N, Bulzacchelli MT, Iandiorio TJ, Ezzati M. Murray CJ, et al. PLoS Med. 2006 Sep;3(9):e260. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030260. PLoS Med. 2006. PMID: 16968116 Free PMC article.

1. Murray CJL, Kulkarni SC, Michaud C, Tomijima N, Bulzacchelli M, et al. Eight Americas: Investigating mortality disparities across races, counties, and race-counties in the United States. PLoS Med. 2006;3(9):e260. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030260. - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. Murray CJL, Michaud C, Mckenna MT, Marks JS. Atlanta and Boston: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Harvard School of Public Health; 1998. US patterns of mortality by county and race: 1965–1994. Available: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/organizations/bdu/images/usbodi/index.html. Accessed 26 July 2006.
1. US Department of Health and Human Services. Washington (D. C.): US Department of Health and Human Services; 1998. Health, United States, 1998. Available: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus98.pdf. Accessed 26 July 2006. - PubMed
1. Wilson WJ. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1987. The truly disadvantaged: The inner city, the underclass, and public policy; p. 261.
1. Jargowsky PA. New York: Russell Sage Foundation; 1997. Poverty and place: Ghettos, barrios, and the American city; p. 304.