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Activity Number:
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17
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 8, 2004 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
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| Abstract - #300996 |
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Title:
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Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality: Does the Myth Prevail in 21st Century?
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Author(s):
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Jay H. Kim*+ and Jay J. Kim and Paul D. Williams
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Companies:
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Center for Health Statistics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Address:
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NCHS, 3311 Toledo Rd., Room 3106, Hyattsville, MD, 20782,
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Keywords:
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socioeconomic status ; mortality ; health service area
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Abstract:
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The inverse relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality rates have been well-known mythology ever since Hauser explored it with 1950 data in Chicago metropolitan area. This subject has been revisited by many researchers over time in many different ways and countries. The authors will use the national death registration of 1999, 2000, and 2001, the most recent data from National Center for Health Statistics, and income and education data by county from Census 2000. After the socioeconomic status indicator for each county is constructed with income and education levels, the mean of SES values of counties that make up a health service area (HAS) will be SES value of that HAS. The 805 HSAs will be assigned to one of the five SES groups. With analysis of variance and concordance test, authors will investigate the mortality rate differentials by SES to explore whether the myth still prevails in the beginning of the 21st century.
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