Causes and Disparities in Death Rates Among Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Populations, 1999-2009

To characterize the leading causes of death for the urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population and compare with urban White and rural AI/AN populations. We linked Indian Health Service patient registration records with the National Death Index to reduce racial misclassification in death certificate data. We calculated age-adjusted urban AI/AN death rates for the period 1999-2009 and compared those with corresponding urban White and rural AI/AN death rates. The top-5 leading causes of death among urban AI/AN persons were heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, diabetes, and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. Compared with urban White persons, urban AI/AN persons experienced significantly higher death rates for all top-5 leading causes. The largest disparities were for diabetes and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. In general, urban and rural AI/AN persons had the same leading causes of death, although urban AI/AN persons had lower death rates for most conditions. Urban AI/AN persons experience significant disparities in death rates compared with their White counterparts. Public health and clinical interventions should target urban AI/AN persons to address behaviors and conditions contributing to health disparities..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:106

Enthalten in:

AJPH - 106(2016), 5, Seite 906

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jacobs-Wingo, Jasmine L [VerfasserIn]
Espey, David K [Sonstige Person]
Groom, Amy V [Sonstige Person]
Phillips, Leslie E [Sonstige Person]
Haverkamp, Donald S [Sonstige Person]

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BKL:

44.10

Themen:

Analysis
Classification
Classification schemes
Electronic records
Health aspects
Health care disparities
Health disparities
Mortality
Native Americans
Native North Americans
Public health
Studies
United States
Urban areas
Usage
Vital statistics

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RVK Klassifikation

doi:

10.2105/AJPH.2015.303033

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1975224566