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Activity Number:
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515
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 2, 2007 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
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| Abstract - #310076 |
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Title:
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Disparity of Mortality from Leading Causes by Socioeconomic Status and Their Geographic Distribution: U.S. Residents, 2000-2004
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Author(s):
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Jay J. Kim*+
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Companies:
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National Center for Health Statistics
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Address:
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3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD, 20782,
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Keywords:
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Mortality Rates ; Socioeconomic Status ; Health Service Areas ; Analysis of Variance ; Principal Component Method
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Abstract:
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Declining mortality rates from heart diseases and cancer have still remained as leading causes of deaths. The mortality rates from other leading causes---cerebrovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and accidents---have either increased or remained the same. In this paper, I plan to map the distribution of mortality for five leading causes of death by health service areas that are based on the hospital usages by Medicare patients. The results are mapped using the mapping software, ArcGIS. In addition, the relationship of the changing mortality by various socioeconomic status (SES) are explored using 2000--2004 mortality data. SES was constructed by applying principal component method to socioeconomic variables available from the 2000 U.S. census. The differences in mortality rates in relation to high/low SES are evaluated by using the analysis of variance method.
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