Colorectal cancer and socioeconomic status in Miami-Dade County: Neighborhood-level associations before and after the Welfare Reform Act

Applied Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1019-1025

  Hernandez, M N ^a   Roy Chowdhury, R ^b   Fleming, L E ^c   Griffith, D A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Medical geography; Miami Dade county; Socioeconomic status; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CANCER; MORTALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WELFARE REFORM;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; MIAMI-DADE COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952510938     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.01.025     Document Type: Article

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