Social inequalities or inequities in cancer incidence? Repeated census-cancer cohort studies, New Zealand 1981-1986 to 2001-2004

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1307-1318

  Blakely, Tony ^a   Shaw, Caroline ^a   Atkinson, June ^a   Cunningham, Ruth ^a   Sarfati, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cancer incidence; Ethnicity; Inequality; Inequity; New Zealand; Socioeconomic position; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAORI; MELANOMA; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PANCREAS CANCER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; TREND STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION GROUPS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 80052306849     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-011-9804-x     Document Type: Article

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