Table 2

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.


Categories Compared
% Change

Wealth SES
1 – 2
+8.9
Poverty SES
1 – 5
-36.9

2 – 5
-32.2

3 – 5
-29.3

4 – 5
-19.4

Joseph Sheehan et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2004 3:17   doi:10.1186/1476-072X-3-17