Breast Cancer and Access to Health Care: A Spatial Analysis — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

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John Kirk
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Breast Cancer and Access to Health Care: A Spatial Analysis

Name: Shelby Smith
Major: Geography
Hometown: Rockford, Mi
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: Senior thesis

Abstract

This research will examine both the spatial and non-spatial relationship between breast cancer mortality rate and poverty, health care facilities per 1,000 people and urban versus rural areas in California. The data will be analyzed for all 58 counties and will be derived from the California Cancer Registry (2007-2009), 2010 Census, and Cal-Atlas (2010). ArcGIS along with other statistical analyses were used for explorative mapping, cluster analysis, t-test, and regression models. These tests were able to determine if there is a correlation between breast cancer mortality rate and the three independent variables. Based on these results there may need to be further research done connecting socioeconomic variables to increased rates in cancer mortally rates.

Poster file