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David Lee, PhD¹, Lora E. Fleming, MD, PhD¹, William G. LeBlanc, PhD¹, Kristopher L. Arheart, EdD¹, Katherine Chung-Bridges, MD, MPH², Sharon L. Christ, MS³, Alberto Caban-Martin, MPH¹, Terry Pitman, BA¹, and Katherine E. McCollister, PhD¹. (1) Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine - NIOSH Research Group, 1801 NW 9th Avenue, Rm 208-B, Highland Professional Building, Miami, FL 33136, 305-243-6980, dlee@med.miami.edu, (2) Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, P.O. Box 016700 (R-700), Miami, FL 33101, (3) Odum Institute for Research in Social Science & Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB#3355, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599

The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is a multipurpose household survey of the U.S. civilian non-institutionalized population conducted yearly since 1957 by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Periodic linkage with the National Death Index allows for the longitudinal analysis of mortality data as a retrospective cohort study. Given its large size and sample representiveness, the NHIS is a critical resource for studying the health of the US population. In previous years the NCHS would release to outside investigators a de-identified cause-specific mortality data file for mortality studies. However, because of confidentiality concerns, access to these data (and other data) is now available only through the NCHS Research Data Center (RDC).

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