Geographic residency status and census tract socioeconomic status as determinants of colorectal cancer outcomes

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Hines, Robert ^a   Markossian, Talar ^b   Johnson, Asal ^b   Dong, Frank ^a   Bayakly, Rana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WICHITA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Chronic Disease   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENSUSES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84894105662     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301572     Document Type: Article

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