Impact of neighborhood racial composition and metropolitan residential segregation on disparities in breast cancer stage at diagnosis and survival between black and white women in California

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 398-408

  Warner, Erica T ^a   Gomez, Scarlett Lin ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Race; Residential segregation; Stage at diagnosis; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77956063184     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-010-9265-2     Document Type: Article

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