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Wealth and poverty SES. Relative changes in breast cancer incidence associated with 2 levels of wealth and five levels of poverty. For wealth, category 2 represents the highest level of wealth. For poverty, category 5 represents the highest level of poverty. For example, the women in the highest poverty level, 5, had an incidence rate 36.9% lower than those in the lowest poverty level, 1. |
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| Categories Compared |
% Change |
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| Wealth SES |
1 – 2 |
+8.9 |
| Poverty SES |
1 – 5 |
-36.9 |
| 2 – 5 |
-32.2 |
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| 3 – 5 |
-29.3 |
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| 4 – 5 |
-19.4 |
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Joseph Sheehan et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:17 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-3-17 |
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