Linking of primary care records to census data to study the association between socioeconomic status and cancer incidence in Southern Europe: a nation-wide ecological study.

Linking of primary care records to census data to study the association between socioeconomic status and cancer incidence in Southern Europe: a nation-wide ecological study.

<h4>Background</h4>Area-based measures of economic deprivation are seldom applied to large medical records databases to establish population-scale associations between deprivation and disease.<h4>Objective</h4>To study the association between deprivation and incidence of comm...

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Main Authors: Maria Garcia-Gil, Josep-Maria Elorza, Marta Banque, Marc Comas-Cufí, Jordi Blanch, Rafel Ramos, Leonardo Méndez-Boo, Eduardo Hermosilla, Bonaventura Bolibar, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109706

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