Area Deprivation Index and Rurality in Relation to Lung Cancer Prevalence and Mortality in a Rural State.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We sought to describe lung cancer prevalence and mortality in relation to socioeconomic deprivation and rurality.

Methods

We conducted a population-based cross-sectional analysis of prevalent lung cancers from a statewide all-payer claims dataset from 2012 to 2016, lung cancer deaths in Maine from the state death registry from 2012 to 2016, rurality, and area deprivation index (ADI), a geographic area-based measure of socioeconomic deprivation. Analyses examined rate ratios for lung cancer prevalence and mortality according to rurality (small and isolated rural, large rural, or urban) and ADI (quintiles, with highest reflecting the most deprivation) and after adjusting for age, sex, and area-level smoking rates as determined by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveilla

SUBMITTER: Fairfield KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7353952 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature