Pollution and regional variations of lung cancer mortality in the United States

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2017, Pages 118-127

  Moore, Justin Xavier ^a,b   Akinyemiju, Tomi ^a   Wang, Henry E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Neoplasms; Public health; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RATE; OBESITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCOME; LUNG TUMOR; MORTALITY; OKLAHOMA; POLLUTION; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPALACHIAN REGION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OKLAHOMA; PARTICULATE MATTER; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85020260344     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: 1877783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2017.05.013     Document Type: Article

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