Divergent trends in life expectancy across the rural-urban gradient and association with specific racial proportions in the contiguous United States 2000-2005
We used individual-level death data to estimate county-level life expectancy at 25 (e25) for Whites, Black, AIAN and Asian in the contiguous US for 2000-2005. Race-sex-stratified models were used to examine the associations among e25, rurality and specific race proportion, adjusted for socioeconomic variables. …