Open AccessDisparities in Cancer Mortality and Incidence Among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States
Author(s) -
Mary C. White,
David K. Espey,
Judith Swan,
Charles L. Wiggins,
Christie R. Eheman,
Judith S. Kaur
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2013.301673
Subject(s) - demography , incidence (geometry) , medicine , cancer incidence , mortality rate , cancer , national death index , cancer registry , gerontology , hazard ratio , confidence interval , physics , sociology , optics
We used improved data on American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) ancestry to provide an updated and comprehensive description of cancer mortality and incidence among AI/AN populations from 1990 to 2009.