Residential racial composition, spatial access to care, and breast cancer mortality among women in Georgia

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1117-1129

  Russell, Emily ^a   Kramer, Michael R ^a   Cooper, Hannah L F ^a   Thompson, Winifred Wilkins ^a   Arriola, Kimberly R Jacob ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Disparities; Ethnicity; Race; Spatial access to health care

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84855262075     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-011-9612-3     Document Type: Article

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