Relationships between socioeconomic status and race-specific cervical cancer incidence in the United States, 1973-1992

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 420-432

  Liu, Tiepu ^b   Wang, Xingqiu ^a   Waterbor, John W ^a,c   Weiss, Heidi L ^a   Soong, Seng Jaw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Epidemiology; Logistic regression; Pap smear; Poisson log linear model; Public health; Relative risk; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARCINOMA IN SITU; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032199806     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2010.0482     Document Type: Article

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