Paths to health equity: Local area variation in progress toward eliminating breast cancer mortality disparities, 1990-2009

Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 2765-2774

  Rust, George ^a   Zhang, Shun ^a   Malhotra, Khusdeep ^a   Reese, Leroy ^a   McRoy, Luceta ^a   Baltrus, Peter ^a   Caplan, Lee ^a   Levine, Robert S ^b  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; disparities; equity; local area variation; mortality trends; race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; BLACK PERSON; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL STATUS; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; BREAST TUMOR; ETHNOLOGY; MORTALITY; TIME;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84938741968     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29405     Document Type: Review

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