title: State-level variations in racial disparities in life expectancy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore state patterns in the racial life expectancy gap.
  
  
  METHODS
  The 1997-2004 Multiple Cause of Death PUF, 2000 U.S. Census.
  
  
  METHODS
  We calculated life expectancy at birth for black and white men and women.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were obtained by the NCHS and U.S. Census Bureau.
  
  
  RESULTS
  States with small racial differences are due to higher-than-expected life expectancy for blacks or lower-than-expected for whites. States with large disparity are explained by higher-than-average life expectancy among whites or lower-than-average life expectancy among blacks.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Heterogeneous state patterns in racial disparity in life expectancy exist. Eliminating disparity in states with large black populations would make the greatest impact nationally.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Nazleen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bharmal
authors.forename: Chi-Hong
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tseng
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: Mitchell D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy / Q000208:ethnology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
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