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Peer reviewedPotter, Lloyd B.; Galle, Omer R. – Rural Sociology, 1990
Uses life-table techniques to examine mortality differences by gender and rural-urban residence for Blacks and Whites in the South. Life expectancy is higher for metropolitan and White populations. Residential and racial mortality differences largely attributable to effects of accidents, specific illnesses, prenatal conditions, and homicide.…
Descriptors: Accidents, Cancer, Death, Disease Incidence
