Table 3. Geographic disparity of county-specific relative risk of PCP availability and socioeconomic deprivation on three breast cancer indicators by SEER areas, presented by RR.
Early-stage incidence | |||||||
PCP availability | Socioeconomic deprivation | ||||||
Area | N† | Range | Mean | Variance | Range | Mean | Variance |
San Francisco | 5 | 1.01–1.08 | 1.03 | 0.0008 | 0.90–1.00 | 0.96 | 0.0014 |
Connecticut | 8 | 0.98–1.06 | 1.02 | 0.0006 | 0.95–1.13 | 1.02 | 0.0050 |
Atlanta | 5 | 0.99–1.08 | 1.02 | 0.0013 | 0.95–1.23 | 1.08 | 0.0104 |
Hawaii | 5 | 0.99–1.15 | 1.04 | 0.0042 | 0.82–1.35 | 1.14 | 0.0380 |
Iowa | 99 | 0.98–1.05 | 1.00 | 0.0002 | 0.80–1.27 | 1.01 | 0.0083 |
Detroit | 3 | 1.00–1.03 | 1.02 | 0.0003 | 0.92–1.13 | 1.02 | 0.0110 |
New Mexico | 33 | 0.93–1.09 | 1.00 | 0.0005 | 0.48–2.62 | 0.96 | 0.1191 |
Utah | 29 | 0.97–1.17 | 1.01 | 0.0012 | 0.71–1.81 | 1.01 | 0.0435 |
Seattle | 13 | 0.99–1.05 | 1.01 | 0.0004 | 0.93–1.20 | 1.01 | 0.0044 |
N = number of counties; PCP = primary care physicians.