Widening Social Inequalities in Cancer Mortality of Children Under 5 Years in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To investigate the effect of parental social class on cancer mortality in children under 5 in Korea, two birth cohorts were constructed by linking national birth data to under-5 death data from the Statistics Korea for 1995-1999 (3,323,613 births) and 2010-2014 (2,297,876 births).

Methods

The Cox proportional hazards model adjusted for covariates was used in this study.

Results

Social inequalities of under-5 cancer mortality risk in paternal education and paternal employment status were greater in 2010-2014 than in 1995-1999. The gap of hazard ratio (HR) of under-5 cancer mortality between lower (high school or below) and higher (university or higher) paternal education increased from 1.23 (95% confidence interval, 1.041.46) in 1995-1999 to 1.45 (1.11-1.97)

SUBMITTER: Son M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9829512 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature