Geocoding and monitoring of US socioeconomic inequalities in mortality and cancer incidence: Does the choice of area-based measure and geographic level matter? The public health disparities geocoding project

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 471-482

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Soobader, Mah Jabeen ^a   Subramanian, S V ^a   Carson, Rosa ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Censuses; Geographic information system; Geostatistics; Mortality; Neoplasms; Population surveillance; Poverty; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GIS; HEALTH MONITORING; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTRIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036726008     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwf068     Document Type: Article

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