A Method of Record Linkage

• Published in: Environmental health perspectives Vol. 32; pp. 221 - 230
• Main Authors: Oshima, Akira, Sakagami, Fumio, Hanai, Aya, Fujimoto, Isaburo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. National Institutes of Health. Department of Health, Education and Welfare 01.10.1979
• Subjects: Cancer; Cancer screening; Computers; Death certificates; Environmental health; Epidemiology; Family; Female; Follow up studies; Health screening; Humans; Japan; Male; Mass Screening; National Health Programs; Neoplasms - epidemiology; Neoplasms - mortality; Neoplasms - prevention & control; Prefectures; Proceedings of the U.S.-Japan Conference Biostatistics in the Study of Human Cancer. Hiroshima, Japan May 22-25, 1978; Prospective Studies; Records as Topic; Records linkage; Registries; Stomach cancer; Stomach Neoplasms - epidemiology; Stomach Neoplasms - prevention & control; Japan

In cancer epidemiology, prospective approaches are very important both in testing etiological hypotheses and in evaluating preventive procedures. Prospective studies, however, are very difficult and expensive, because a large number of people and a long period of observation are necessary for a sati...