Table III.

Demographic, Socioeconomic and Healthcare Accessibility Predictors of Melanoma prognosis (Mortality to Incidence Ratio), 1988–1993.

	Variable	Coefficient	SE	T (df)	P-value
Demographic Predictors (Individual-level)
Gender		0.014	0.002	6.1 (1)	<0.0001
Age		0.0002	0.0001	2.6 (1)	0.009
Race	Black	0.08	0.02	5.1 (1)	<0.0001
	Asian	−0.01	0.005	−1.9 (1)	0.06
	Native American	0.05	0.01	3.6 (1)	0.0003
	White	Reference
Marital Status	Married	0.01	0.003	5.0 (1)	<0.0001
	Widowed	0.04	0.005	7.6 (1)	<0.0001
	Divorced	0.02	0.005	3.6 (1)	0.0003
	Separated	0.07	0.02	3.6 (1)	0.0003
	Never married	Reference
Socioeconomic Predictors (census-tract level)
	Percent of population	−0.03	0.007	5.45 (1)	<0.0001
	White
	Percent of population with less than HS education	0.18	0.02	11.9 (1)	<0.0001
	Median Household Income of Tract	−0.002	0.0008	2.0 (1)	0.045
Access to Care predictors (county-level)
	Dermatologists per 100,000 population	−0.002	0.0008	2.6 (1)	0.009
	Family Practitioners per 100,000 population	0.0007	0.0001	5.7 (1)	<0.0001
	Internists per 100,000 population	0.00008	0.00009	0.9 (1)	0.4

F-value of model (DF)=49.66 (15, 17686), p< 0.0001

R²=0.04