IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/10.2105-ajph.2015.303033_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Causes and disparities in death rates among Urban American Indian and Alaska native populations, 1999-2009

Author

Listed:
  • Jacobs-Wingo, J.L.
  • Espey, D.K.
  • Groom, A.V.
  • Phillips, L.E.
  • Haverkamp, D.S.
  • Stanley, S.L.

Abstract

Objectives. To characterize the leading causes of death for the urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population and compare with urban White and rural AI/AN populations. Methods. We linked Indian Health Service patient registration records with the National Death Index to reduce racial misclassification in death certificate data. We calculated age-adjusted urban AI/AN death rates for the period 1999-2009 and compared those with corresponding urban White and rural AI/AN death rates. Results. The top-5 leading causes of death among urban AI/AN persons were heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, diabetes, and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. Compared with urban White persons, urban AI/AN persons experienced significantly higher death rates for all top-5 leading causes. The largest disparities were for diabetes and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. In general, urban and rural AI/AN persons had the same leading causes of death, although urban AI/AN persons had lower death rates for most conditions. Conclusions. Urban AI/AN persons experience significant disparities in death rates compared with their White counterparts. Public health and clinical interventions should target urban AI/AN persons to address behaviors and conditions contributing to health disparities.

Suggested Citation

  • Jacobs-Wingo, J.L. & Espey, D.K. & Groom, A.V. & Phillips, L.E. & Haverkamp, D.S. & Stanley, S.L., 2016. "Causes and disparities in death rates among Urban American Indian and Alaska native populations, 1999-2009," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 106(5), pages 906-914.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2015.303033_6
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.303033
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2105/AJPH.2015.303033
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2105/AJPH.2015.303033?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka & Julie A. Beans & Renee F. Robinson & Jennifer L. Shaw & Ileen Sylvester & Denise A. Dillard, 2017. "Self-Determination in Health Research: An Alaska Native Example of Tribal Ownership and Research Regulation," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-11, October.
    2. Whitney E. Zahnd & Cathryn Murphy & Marie Knoll & Gabriel A. Benavidez & Kelsey R. Day & Radhika Ranganathan & Parthenia Luke & Anja Zgodic & Kewei Shi & Melinda A. Merrell & Elizabeth L. Crouch & Hea, 2021. "The Intersection of Rural Residence and Minority Race/Ethnicity in Cancer Disparities in the United States," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-26, February.
    3. Tara Becker & Susan H. Babey & Rashida Dorsey & Ninez A. Ponce, 2021. "Data Disaggregation with American Indian/Alaska Native Population Data," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 40(1), pages 103-125, February.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2015.303033_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.