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Notice to Readers: MMWR Rural Health Series
Weekly / January 20, 2017 / 66(02);64
During 2017, MMWR will publish several Surveillance Summaries on topics that highlight rural health issues. The MMWR Rural Health Series is available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/rural_health_series.html. Two recently published reports (1,2) described the death rate and number of potentially excess deaths from the five leading causes of death in the United States.
References
- Moy E, Garcia MC, Bastian B, et al. Leading causes of death in nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas—United States, 1999–2014. MMWR Surveill Summ 2017;66(No. SS-1). CrossRef PubMed
- Garcia MC, Faul M, Massetti G, et al. Reducing potentially excess deaths from the five leading causes of death in the rural United States. MMWR Surveill Summ 2017;66(No. SS-2). CrossRef
Suggested citation for this article: Notice to Readers: MMWR Rural Health Series. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2017;66:64. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6602a7.
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