A Look at When Dying Really Counts: An Supplement on Mortality Data in Public Health Surveillance.

Am J Public Health

Vickie M. Mays is with the Departments of Psychology and Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the UCLA BRITE Center for Science, Research & Policy, University of California, Los Angeles. Susan D. Cochran is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, UCLA

Published: July 2021


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