Mortality

Americans Are Living Longer Than Ever
National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2000 With Adolescent Health Chartbook (Hyattsville, MD: NCHS, 2000), accessed online here (9/14/00).

Trends in Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke
National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2000 With Adolescent Health Chartbook (Hyattsville, MD: NCHS, 2000), accessed online here (9/18/00).

How Much Better Can It Get?
U.S. Census Bureau, accessed online here (10/26/00); and Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan, accessed online here (11/6/00).

A Century of Progress in Infant and Child Survival
U.S. Census Bureau. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Bicentennial Edition, Part 1 (Washington, DC: 1975); and National Center for Health Statistics, "Deaths: Final Data for 1998" by S.L. Murphy, National Vital Statistics Report 48, no. 11 (Hyattsville, MD: NCHS, 2000); and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics of the United States 1981, Volume 2, Mortality (Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Vital Statistics, 1986); and National Center for Health Statistics, accessed online here (9/27/00); and National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2000 With Adolescent Health Chartbook (Hyattsville, MD: NCHS, 2000), accessed online here (9/18/00); and Federal Security Agency, United States Public Health Service, National Office of Vital Statistics. Vital Statistics Rates in the United States 1900-1940 (New York: Arno Press, 1976).

Racial and Ethnic Differences
National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 2000 With Adolescent Health Chartbook (Hyattsville, MD: NCHS, 2000), accessed online here (9/18/00); and National Center for Health Statistics, "Deaths: Final Data for 1998" by S.L. Murphy, National Vital Statistics Report 48, no. 11 (Hyattsville, MD: NCHS, 2000).

The Gender Gap
Source: National Center for Health Statistics, "Deaths: Final Data for 1998" by S.L. Murphy, National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 48, No.11 (Hyattsville, MD: NCHS, 2000).

Healthy Places
National Center for Health Statistics, "Deaths: Final Data for 1998" by S.L. Murphy, National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 48, No.11 (Hyattsville, MD: NCHS, 2000).