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Published in final edited form as: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2012 May;23(2):715–725. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0043

Table 2.

RESULTS FROM MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSES MODELING REDUCTION IN AGE-ADJUSTED WHITE FEMALE BREAST CANCER DEATH RATES,^a 1969–2007

	Model 1	Model 2
Number of counties included^b	1008	1008
Intercept	−23.67^*	−18.99^**
Appalachian	−.65^**
Sub-regions
Northern Appalachia		.30
North Central Appalachia		−2.55^*
Central Appalachia		−3.63^*
South Central Appalachia		−3.88^***
Southern Appalachia		−1.56^*
Rural status	.60	.56
% White Poverty	−.12	−.12
% White 25+ HS graduate or more	.28^***	.23^***
% Percent White in the Population	.06^***	.06^***
Number of physicians per 1,000 residents	.94^***	.99^***
R²	.2859	.3016
Adjusted R²	.2816	.2946
F statistics	66.79^***	43.05^***

p<.05

^**

p<.01

^***

p<.001

Mortality rates are expressed as deaths per 100,000 individuals per year, and the dependent variable is the difference in aggregate county-level mortality rates between 1969–1977 and 1999–2007.

The N of 1008 represents the number of counties in the 13 Appalachian states with complete data for all variables in the model.