Deaths of Despair: Why? What to Do?

Affiliations

¹ F. Douglas Scutchfield is the Bosomworth professor emeritus in the College of Public Health and College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington. C. William Keck is professor emeritus in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown.

Editorial

F Douglas Scutchfield et al. Am J Public Health. 2017 Oct.

. 2017 Oct;107(10):1564-1565.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.303992.

¹ F. Douglas Scutchfield is the Bosomworth professor emeritus in the College of Public Health and College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington. C. William Keck is professor emeritus in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown.

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Despair in the American Heartland? A Focus on Rural Health.
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