A Look at When Dying Really Counts: An AJPH Supplement on Mortality Data in Public Health Surveillance

Vickie M Mays¹, Susan D Cochran¹

• ¹Vickie M. Mays is with the Departments of Psychology and Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the UCLA BRITE Center for Science, Research & Policy, University of California, Los Angeles. Susan D. Cochran is with the Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the UCLA BRITE Center. Vickie M. Mays and Susan D. Cochran are also Guest Editors for this supplement issue.