TY - JOUR
T1 - Social inequality and incidence of and survival from cancer in a population-based study in Denmark, 1994-2003
T2 - Background, aims, material and methods
AU - Dalton, Susanne Oksbjerg
AU - Steding-Jessen, Marianne
AU - Gislum, Mette
AU - Frederiksen, Kirsten
AU - Engholm, Gerda
AU - Schüz, Joachim
PY - 2008/9/1
Y1 - 2008/9/1
N2 - The purpose of this register-based study was to identify variations in cancer incidence and survival after cancer in Denmark on the basis of a range of socioeconomic, demographic and health-related indicators. The indicators were level of education, disposable income, affiliation to the work market, social class, housing tenure, size of dwelling, cohabitation status, type of district, ethnicity, Charlson comorbidity index, depression and schizophrenia measured at the individual level on an annual basis. The study population comprised all Danish residents born between 1925 and 1973 and aged ≥30 years, who were followed up for cancer incidence in 1994-2003 and for survival in 1994-2006. The study was based on 3.22 million persons, yielding almost 26 million person-years and 147,973 cancers. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of the indicators and the statistical methods, and we discuss the strengths and limitations of our approach.
AB - The purpose of this register-based study was to identify variations in cancer incidence and survival after cancer in Denmark on the basis of a range of socioeconomic, demographic and health-related indicators. The indicators were level of education, disposable income, affiliation to the work market, social class, housing tenure, size of dwelling, cohabitation status, type of district, ethnicity, Charlson comorbidity index, depression and schizophrenia measured at the individual level on an annual basis. The study population comprised all Danish residents born between 1925 and 1973 and aged ≥30 years, who were followed up for cancer incidence in 1994-2003 and for survival in 1994-2006. The study was based on 3.22 million persons, yielding almost 26 million person-years and 147,973 cancers. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of the indicators and the statistical methods, and we discuss the strengths and limitations of our approach.
KW - Cancer incidence
KW - Denmark
KW - Social inequality
KW - Socioeconomic position
KW - Survival after cancer
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=50449087717&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ejca.2008.06.010
DO - 10.1016/j.ejca.2008.06.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 18684615
AN - SCOPUS:50449087717
SN - 0959-8049
VL - 44
SP - 1938
EP - 1949
JO - European Journal of Cancer
JF - European Journal of Cancer
IS - 14
ER -