Shrinking, widening, reversing, and stagnating trends in US socioeconomic inequities in cancer mortality for the total, black, and white populations: 1960-2006

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 297-319

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Kosheleva, Anna ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Black; Cancer mortality; Race ethnicity; Secular trends; Socioeconomic inequalities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RESEARCH; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856721896     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-011-9879-4     Document Type: Article

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