FIGURE 2.1. Crude and age-adjusted death rates: United States, 1940–1990.

FIGURE 2.1

Crude and age-adjusted death rates: United States, 1940–1990.

Source: Singh et al., 1996.

From: 2, A Profile of Death and Dying in America

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