Female mortality rising in several Wisconsin counties

While death rates generally have fallen in the U.S. over the past two decades, drilling down county-by-county reveals a dramatically different picture for women. Female death rates actually rose in 43% of U.S. counties between 1992 and 2006, including a swath of central and northern Wisconsin, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs. (JOURNAL SENTINEL, 3/5)