Elo, Irma; Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram; Macinko, James - In: Population Research and Policy Review 33 (2014) 1, pp. 97-126
Black–white mortality disparities remain sizable in the United States. In this study, we use the concept of avoidable/amenable mortality to estimate cause-of-death contributions to the difference in life expectancy between whites and blacks by gender in the United States in 1980, 1993, and...