Increased breast cancer mortality only in the lower education group: age-period-cohort effect in breast cancer mortality by educational level in South Korea, 1983-2012

Increased breast cancer mortality only in the lower education group: age-period-cohort effect in breast cancer mortality by educational level in South Korea, 1983-2012

Abstract Background A steadily increasing pattern of breast cancer mortality has been reported in South Korea since the late 1980s. This paper explored the trends of educational inequalities of female breast cancer mortality between 1983 and 2012 in Korea, and conducted age-period-cohort (APC) analy...

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Main Authors: Jinwook Bahk, Sung-Mi Jang, Kyunghee Jung-Choi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-03-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
Subjects:
Breast cancer
Socioeconomic inequality
Age-period-cohort effect
Korea
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-017-0554-6

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