Widening area-based socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality in Germany between 2003 and 2019.

ABSTRACT: Cancer mortality has declined in recent decades, but-due to a lack of national individual-level data-it remains unclear whether this applies equally to all socioeconomic groups in Germany. Using an area-based approach, this study investigated socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality and their secular trends on a German nationwide scale for the first time. Official cause-of-death data from 2003 to 2019 were linked to the district-level German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation. Age-standardised mortality rates for all cancers combined and the most common site-specific cancers were calculated according to the level of regional socioeconomic deprivation. To quantify the extent of area-based socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality, absolute (SII) and relative (RII) indices of ineq

SUBMITTER: Tetzlaff F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10587166 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature