Some thoughts on health surveillance data, race, and population categorization

CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 179-181

  Brawley, Otis W ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALASKA NATIVE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH BELIEF; HISPANIC; HUMAN; NATIVE HAWAIIAN; NOTE; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH SURVEY;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84961710280     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: 15424863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/caac.21346     Document Type: Note

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