Varying evolution of the New Zealand lung cancer epidemic by ethnicity and socioeconomic position (1981-1999)

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1213, 2005, Pages

  Shaw, Caroline ^a   Blakely, Tony ^a   Sarfati, Diana ^a   Fawcett, Jackie ^a   Hill, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; ABORIGINE; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; CENSUSES; COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 23044445369     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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