title: How Does Cause of Death Contribute to the Hispanic Mortality Advantage in the United States?
abstract: The Hispanic population in the United States has lower overall mortality and higher life expectancy at birth than the non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black populations. The expectation has been that the Hispanic population should exhibit a mortality profile that is similar to that of the non-Hispanic black population, not one that is advantaged relative to the non-Hispanic white population (1-4). In this report, differences in the leading causes of death between the Hispanic and non-Hispanic white and black populations are explored to determine how they contributed to the life expectancy advantage of the Hispanic population in 2013.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Arias
authors.forename: Kenneth D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Kochanek
authors.forename: Robert N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy / Q000208:ethnology*; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality / Q000208:ethnology*; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014481:United States; D044465:White People