The Geography of Death in the United States and the United Kingdom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8377990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malcolm Murray (Miami University, corresponding author), MALCOLM A MURRAY |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 301-314 |
| Publication date | 1967-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1967.tb00605.x |
| OpenAlex | W2024977682 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
Death rate variations for the United Kingdom and the United States are spatially compared by means of maps. The data mapped include death rates from all causes, and infant mortality. In the United Kingdom, the association between high death rates and areas of industrialization, exploitation, and dense population is very marked. Such an association is somewhat less definite in the United States where the high rates associate more easily with areas of poor socio-economic circumstances such as Indian reservations, Spanish-American districts, and most particularly, the high-proportion Negro areas of the South. In both countries, however, longevity in rural areas and in urban places of limited industry is likely to be greater than in areas not having these attributes. The quality of biostatistics in the United Kingdom has been superior to the United States. The recently launched National Health Survey, however, promises to greatly improve the biostatistic position of the United States. The special contribution of medical geography is the mapping technique and the interpretations which potentially it allows. At the national scale the sensitivity limits of such an approach must be recognized and there can be no simple explanation of apparent mortality patterns. Such maps as these are designed to focus on areas where detailed studies may be of benefit in substantiating cause-and-effect relationships
Cartography · China · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Industrialisation · Life expectancy · Mortality rate · Political science · Population · Position (finance) · Regional science · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Law
Introduction
The geographical analysis of small area/population death rates
Disaggregating regional variations in mortality by cause of death
Does the Impact of the Tobacco Epidemic Explain Structural Changes in the Decline of Mortality
Persistent Clusters of Mortality in the United States
International communication and medical geography
The Enduring Struggle for Social Justice and the City
Approaches to medical geography
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1976 - 2018 (43) |
| Highly cited | No |