RE: "An overview of methods for monitoring social disparities in cancer with an example using trends in lung cancer incidence by area-socioeconomic position and race-ethnicity, 1992-2004"

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 168, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1214-1216

  Bhopal, Raj S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREND STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUMOR; NOTE; SOCIAL CLASS;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 56149090832     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn317     Document Type: Letter

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