Social Environment and Cancer in Europe: Towards an Evidence-Based Public Health Policy

Abstract

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Part I: General Considerations and Methodologic Aspects -- Chapter 1: Social Inequities in Cancer: Why Develop Scientific Research? -- References -- Chapter 2: Population-Based Cancer Registries: A Data Stream to Help Build an Evidence-Based Cancer Policy for Europe and for European Countries -- References -- Chapter 3: The European Deprivation Index: A Tool to Help Build an Evidence-Based Cancer Policy for Europe -- References -- Chapter 4: Social Disparities in Cancer Incidence: Methodological Considerations -- Introduction -- General Context -- Methodological Points -- Context of Spatial Analysis -- Bayesian Model for Smoothing Relative Risks -- Distribution of Hyperparameters σ2v and σ2u -- Regression Models with Covariates -- The Data -- The Results -- SIR, Smoothed SIR and Choice of Bayesian Model -- Regression Coefficients for the Explanatory Variables -- Sensitivity Analysis on the Choice of Hyper-Parameters -- Elements of Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Social Disparities in Cancer Survival: Methodological Considerations -- Introduction -- Relative Survival Approaches -- Net Survival -- The Measure of Interest -- Estimation -- Age-Standardisation for Improving Comparability -- Measuring the Socioeconomic Deprivation -- Illustration - Part 1 -- Quantifying the Association between Socioeconomic Deprivation and Excess Mortality -- The Mortality Hazard -- Illustration - Part 2 -- Some Principles for Defining a Hazard-Based Regression Model -- Illustration - Part 3 -- Discussion -- References -- Part II: Social Disparities in Cancer Incidence and Survival - Reports -- Chapter 6: Social Disparities in Cancer Incidence Among Adults in Europe -- Background -- Cancers Associated with Low Socioeconomic Status.