Using a composite index of socioeconomic status to investigate health disparities while protecting the confidentiality of cancer registry data

• Published in: Cancer causes & control Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 81 - 92
• Main Authors: Yu, Mandi, Tatalovich, Zaria, Gibson, James T., Cronin, Kathleen A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.01.2014; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Application programming interfaces; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cancer incidence; Cancer Research; Census; Census tracts; Censuses; Confidentiality; Continental Population Groups; Epidemiology; Estimates; Ethnic Groups; Female; Health disparities; Health Status Disparities; Hematology; Humans; Incidence; Lung cancer; Male; Materials; Middle Aged; Neoplasms - epidemiology; Neoplasms - mortality; Oncology; Original Paper; Patients; Population; Prophets; Public Health; Registries; Risk Factors; SEER Program; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic status; Socioeconomics; Surveillance; Survival Rate; Tumors; White people; Young Adult; United States > US; Socioeconomic index; SEER; Cancer incidence; Health disparity; Cancer survival; Census tract

Purpose: The lack of individual socioeconomic status (SES) information in cancer registry data necessitates the use of area-based measures to investigate health disparities. Concerns about confidentiality, however, prohibit publishing patients' residential locations at the subcounty level. We d...