Toward an index of preventable mortality / Theodore D. Woolsey.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Woolsey, Theodore D., 1913-1992, author.

Contributor:

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), issuing body.

Series:

Vital and health statistics. Data evaluation and methods research ; Series 2, no. 85.

DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 81-1359.

Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research ; number 85

DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 81-1359

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mortality--United States--Statistical methods.

Mortality.

Death--Causes--Statistical methods.

Death.

Health status indicators--United States--Statistical methods.

Health status indicators.

United States--Statistics, Medical.

United States.

United States--Statistics, Vital.

Health status indicators--Statistical methods.

Mortality--Statistical methods.

Genre:

vital statistics records.

Medical statistics.

Vital statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 37 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Hyattsville, Md. : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Office of Health Research, Statistics, and Technology, National Center for Health Statistics, 1981.

Notes:

"May 1981."

"This report presents a research study on the development of an index that reflects the extent to which an area's mortality rates exceed the lowest possible rates that could be achieved at this epoch in the United States. The index is applied to mortality rates in 19 selected health service areas during 1969-71."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-26).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (CDC, viewed April 2, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Woolsey, Theodore D., 1913-1992. Toward an index of preventable mortality

ISBN:

0840601891

9780840601896

OCLC:

1015670272