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
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