James Wesley, Wolf Julia, Cossman Jeralynn
The University of Memphis, USA.
West Virginia University, USA.
Soc Sci J. 2020;57(1):115-119. doi: 10.1016/j.soscij.2019.01.005. Epub 2020 Jan 27.
This research examines differences in white and black persistence of mortality in the United States over a period of nearly 50 years. Using data from the National Center for Health Statistics Compressed Mortality File, we calculated race-specific, all-cause age-adjusted mortality rates for ten time periods from 1968 to 2015. Counties ranking in the top 20% of mortality in at least half of the time periods are classified as persistently unhealthy. Race-specific mortality persistence is mapped illustrating geographic disparities in the clustering of unhealthy places. Persistence of white mortality is clustered in several distinct Southern regions, while black persistent mortality is evenly distributed geographically. Socioeconomic characteristics of white and black persistently unhealthy places are also examined, with a focus on rural-urban differences.
本研究考察了近50年间美国白人和黑人死亡率持续情况的差异。利用国家卫生统计中心压缩死亡率文件中的数据，我们计算了1968年至2015年十个时间段内按种族划分的全因年龄调整死亡率。在至少一半时间段内死亡率排名前20%的县被归类为持续不健康地区。绘制了按种族划分的死亡率持续情况图，以说明不健康地区聚集情况的地理差异。白人死亡率的持续情况集中在南部几个不同地区，而黑人持续死亡率在地理上分布较为均匀。我们还研究了白人和黑人持续不健康地区的社会经济特征，重点关注城乡差异。
