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Identification of racial disparities in breast cancer mortality: does scale matter?
BACKGROUND: This paper investigates the impact of geographic scale (census tract, zip code, and county) on the detection of disparities in breast cancer mortality among three ethnic groups in Texas (period 1995-2005). Racial disparities were quantified using both relative (RR) and absolute (RD) stat...
Autores principales: | Tian, Nancy, Goovaerts, Pierre, Zhan, F Benjamin, Wilson, Jeff G |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2910022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20602784 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-9-35 |
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