Methodologic implications of social inequalities for analyzing health disparities in large spatiotemporal data sets: An example using breast cancer incidence data (Northern and Southern California, 1988-2002)

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 3957-3983

  Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Coull, Brent A ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a   Krieger, Nancy ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer race ethnicity; CAR model; Disease mapping; Health disparities; Multilevel model; Socioeconomic; Spatiotemporal analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOS ANGELES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SAN FRANCISCO; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIAL CLASS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 50849110150     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3263     Document Type: Article

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