Journal article
Ethnic inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality: Census-linked cohort studies with 87 million years of person-time follow-up
AM Teng, J Atkinson, G Disney, N Wilson, D Sarfati, M McLeod, T Blakely
BMC Cancer | BMC | Published : 2016
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Abstract
Background: Cancer makes up a large and increasing proportion of excess mortality for indigenous, marginalised and socioeconomically deprived populations, and much of this inequality is preventable. This study aimed to determine which cancers give rise to changing ethnic inequalities over time. Methods: New Zealand census data from 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006, were all probabilistically linked to three to five subsequent years of mortality (68 million person-years) and cancer registrations (87 million person years) and weighted for linkage bias. Age-standardised rate differences (SRDs) for Maori (indigenous) and Pacific peoples, each compared to European/Other, were decomposed by ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Ministry of Health [425630/34738]. Cancer Trends is a long-standing programme built on an ongoing collaboration between the Ministry of Health, University of Otago and Statistics New Zealand. Access to the data used in this study was provided by Statistics New Zealand under conditions designed to give effect to the security and confidentiality provisions of the Statistics Act 1975. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.