Cancer mortality by country of birth, sex, and socioeconomic position in Sweden, 1961-2009

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Abdoli, Gholamreza ^a,b   Bottai, Matteo ^a   Moradi, Tahereh ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KERMANSHAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Centrum for Epidemiology and Social Medicine Healthcare Provision   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; AGED; ANGOLA; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIRTH RATE; BIRTHPLACE; BREAST CANCER; CAMBODIA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LAOS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STOMACH CANCER; SWEDEN; TREND STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; BIRTH; MIGRANT; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PARTURITION; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84899865456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093174     Document Type: Article

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