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Table 2 Effects of the interaction of ethnicity, neighborhood poverty and health insurance on chemotherapy receipt in California, 1996-2000

From: Lack of access to chemotherapy for colon cancer: multiplicative disadvantage of being extremely poor, inadequately insured and African American

     

NHWA-AA

 

No.1

Rate

RR2

(95% CI)

Chemotherapy RD

< 30% Poor & Adequately Insured

  Non-Hispanic white American

2,249

.395

1.00

  

  African American

94

.377

0.95

(0.75, 1.20)

1.8%

Intermediate Groups3

  Non-Hispanic white American

673

.345

1.00

  

  African American

314

.277

0.80

(0.65, 0.98)

6.8%

≥ 30% Poor & Inadequately Insured

  Non-Hispanic white American

79

.352

1.00

  

  African American

51

.146

0.41

(0.22, 0.78)

20.6%

  1. Notes. NHWA, Non-Hispanic white American; AA, African American; RR, Standardized rate ratio; RD, Standardized rate difference; CI, Confidence interval. All rates were directly age and stage-adjusted using this study’s combined AA-NHWA population of cases as the standard.
  2. 1Number of incident colon cancer cases.
  3. 2A rate ratio of 1.00 was the within-ethnic group baseline.
  4. 3Included those who lived in extremely poor neighborhoods, but were adequately insured or those who lived in less poor neighborhoods, but were inadequately insured.
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