Challenges and Opportunities for Modernizing the National Violent Death Reporting System

Affiliations

¹ Vickie M. Mays is with the Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, and the Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA. Susan D. Cochran is with the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the Department of Statistics, University of California Los Angeles.

Editorial

Vickie M Mays et al. Am J Public Health. 2019 Feb.

. 2019 Feb;109(2):192-194.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304891.

¹ Vickie M. Mays is with the Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, and the Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA. Susan D. Cochran is with the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the Department of Statistics, University of California Los Angeles.

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Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Information at Death.
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