Breast cancer mortality and associated factors in Sao Paulo State, Brazil: an ecological analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Identify the factors associated with the age-standardised breast cancer mortality rate in the municipalities of State of São Paulo (SSP), Brazil, in the period from 2006 to 2012.

Design

Ecological study of the breast cancer mortality rate standardised by age, as the dependent variable, having each of the 645 municipalities in the SSP as the unit of analysis.

Settings

The female resident population aged 15 years or older, by age group and municipality, in 2009 (mid-term), obtained from public dataset (Informatics Department of the Unified Health System).

Participants

Women 15 years or older who died of breast cancer in the SSP were selected for the calculation of the breast cancer mortality rate, according to the municipality and age group, from 2006 t

SUBMITTER: Diniz CSG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5629728 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature